Re: Wine

[Christopher C Chimelis <chris@classnet.med.miami.edu>]

On 14 Apr 1999, Brederlow wrote:

> There is a very good answere to the question "Why wine for alpha?":
> 
> 1. I don`t have a Windows System.
> 2. I wan`t to use Windows progs.
> 3. I don`t have time, money and space for an pc + keyboard + mouse +
>    monitor.

Hmmm...well, if you're willing to deal with the speed trade-off
(basically, it's going to be AWFULLY slow...like you're on a 386 at
times), then it might be a worthwhile experiment.  Bear in mind that for
every MFC or Windows API call, you'll be going through these steps:
	1. Translation of the instructions into a Linux-doable call (Wine)
	2. Translation of that Linux call to i386 instruction sets (Wine)
	3. Translation of Wine i386 instructions for Alpha Linux (em86)
	4. Translation of instrs from Wine's translations to Alpha Linux
	   (em86)
	5. Translation of the translations from pretty much all of the
	   above to Alpha instruction sets (em86/kernel)

> Actually I have several comps and several monitors and the space
> requirements realy suck. Using one monitor and one keyboard is a great 
> plus.

I used to have one of those super-neat switches that allow you to run a
bunch of machines with just one keyboard, mouse, and monitor, but I lost
it.  I'll tell you, though, it was a really worthwhile investment (I have
five computers currently at home and four at work).

C