Re: Wine

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

A good friend of mine was one of the chief architects of the Pentium
and later the Itanium.  He told me that when they were designing the
pentium, a very ground breaking design at the time, they used a
cray-xmp to run their processor simulator on.  A very fast machine,
and still not too shabby today.  He told me that it took almost a
month to get the DOS "C" prompt when booting DOS on the simulation
program.  I would expect that this setup would be just a day or two
faster.

a

Lorenzo De Vito wrote:
> 
> A very strange way to run Windows on Linux...emulate MacOS on Linux then run
> VirtualPC on it and install Windows with VirtualPC.
> Terrible !!!
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wilhelm Fitzpatrick" <rafial@well.com>
> To: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Wine
> 
> > > [OFFTOPIC] Is there a Mac emulation layer similar to wine?
> >
> > Not similar to WINE (at least as free software).  There is MOL
> > (Mac-On-Linux) which is similar vmware, in that it allows you to boot
> > MacOS on top of a virtual machine environment hosted inside linux. This
> > will only work on a PowerPC processor.
> >
> > There is a commercial company that makes a products called Executor, that
> > is an emulation of the Mac Toolbox API's along with the a 68k processor
> > emulator that allows running MacOS binaries (at least those compiled for
> > 68k) on Windows and Linux.   I don't know if they have a PPC Linux
> > version, or only x86.
> >
> > Finally, there was vMac, which was a project to create Boch's like
> > environment for hosting 68k MacOS, which has gone pretty dormant.  It'll
> > book System7 on an emulated Mac Plus, but it is very slow.
> >
> > -raf
> >
> >
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