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In article <49no9o$a11@flood.xnet.com>,
Andrew Ryan <genanr@flood.xnet.com> wrote:
>: WINE is kinda stalled at the moment AFAIK, mainly due to the success
>: of DOSEMU. DOSEMU will prob'ly be able to run proper Windoze apps
>: before WINE can! :)
>
>There problem with the dosemu solution is that dosemu (libsvga) does not 
>support many graphics cards.  I have a stupid diamond Viper card and I know
>that libsvga does not support the higher graphics modes.  Wine will work
>with any card supported under X.  I thing the the Wine developers should
>work hard at getting MS office working, since that would cause a lot of
>people to not touch the real windows.

There's a related problem:

*MS-Office* makes me not want to touch "real MS-Windows."

MS-Windows is an ugly, bloated set of hacks on top of MS-DOS that
have encouraged the development of ugly, bloated, highly-crashable
software such as MS-Office.

If you want to run bug-ridden, obsolete*, bloated software, then
you might as well run Microsoft Windows which at least is the
intended platform for MS-Office.

*Note that the MS-Office that many of us have grown to know and despise
is now officially obsolescent as it is in the process of being replace 
by MS-Office-95, which runs only under Windows-95.  At this time, WINE
is not targetting W-95 compatibility.  Not until it gets W3.1 
compatibility...
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