[cad-linux] Re: Wine intellicad
- From: keith frost <pfrostie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:37:08 -0700 (PDT)
> (I know they claim not to be emulators but I really
> don't understand the difference)
Wine is an implimentation of the win32 api for x86
unix. the same as win9x is an implimentation of the
win32 api on dos. saying that wine is an emultor is
the same as saying that the win9x fork of windows is
only emulating an operating system. :-)
when it first started out it was an emulator but it
became clear that it was easier to reverse engineer
the api and dlls.
some apps have even reported better performance on
wine then on native windows. if more people use an
application and send in bug reports then those
application will see the performance increases.
it is now to the point of being a complete toolkit for
linux. it's REAL problem is that the win32 api is a
moving target. that is why toolkits like gtk and qt
will always be prefered.
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and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings.
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