Re: Wine

[Rob Byrnes <robbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>]

Just my 2c worth,

Why bother with wine and em86 when NT is available for Alpha? Is there some
special reason (like wine is able to read linux filesystems?)

btw:  I am trying to peice together a 21064a motherboard to dual boot
NT/Linux ... anyone know what systems with these were called?  I think the
correct images to use are "Cabriolet"

Rob

>>It recently came up on another list that I'm a member of so I thought I
>>would aske the masters.  Will it be difficult to run wine on an alpha?
>>(when wine gets more stable in general)  Will it be difficult to port to
>> run with debian's current set of libraries?   Thanks for your replies.  

>I've been loosely following that thread on axplist also.  My take on the
>whole thing is: Why?  Granted, running NT-Alpha binaries would be good,
>running NT-i386 binaries would not necessarily turn in the performance
>expected for several reasons (which they've no doubt covered over there).
>In short, the overhead of em86 having to handle all machine-level
>corrections on something as complex as Wine would put such a hit on the
>processor that you could more easily scrape together a 486 to turn in
>better performance.

>I'll keep a closer eyeball on that thread from now on, though, to see if
>anyone comes up with some ideas as to how to counter the poor performance
>argument (ie. if someone decides to port Wine to Alpha to emulate
>NT-Alpha).

> C