[rescue] What is Wabi?

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Wed Feb 27 17:33:57 CST 2002


> >I've always been told that even if you somehow magically get WINE to build
> >on a non-x86 platform, it won't run...because its just a unix
> >implementation of the Windoze API and not a true emulation layer.
> >
> >Yes...no...maybe?
>
> Yes.  But Solaris also (at least it used to) run on X86.
>

Oh.  Yeah.  I forgot about that.  I never think of Solarisx86.  Of course,
then there's the whole deal with the WINE guys switching to linuxthreads
and pissing off the entire rest of the *nix world.  I wonder if they ever
switched back to something more reasonable & portable.



More information about the rescue mailing list