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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.


	Maybe they should concentrate on getting more video support for 
DOSEMU?  As far as I can tell, this isn't as much work as supporting the 
Win16 API.  

	Chances are, the DOSEMU guys will have Win3.11 support sooner than
the WINE team.  I mean, things look pretty good now ('tho it still crashes
.. I was certainly impressed).  It doesn't seem that DOSEMU has that much
further to go in getting full, reliable Win3.11 support.  The only real
advantage I see in using WINE is being able to run Windows apps from a
remote X client (that's possible right?  WINE being an X app and all).  I
can certainly get by with running Win3.11 under DOSEMU and Linux and I'm
sure a bunch of other people would too.  I mean, that's how OS/2 does it. 
Hell ... once the DOSEMU team gets full Win3.11 support, OS/2 will have
absolutly nothing over Linux (IMHO). 

	
Arcadio