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Re: Q: DOSEMU/WINE & MS Office

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From: Andrew Ryan
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 00:00
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Arcadio Alivio Sincero (lotu@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
: 	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.  

	I agree, I think the libsvga & DOSEMU people should work on
supporting more cards.  I think the libsvga people are working on a better
and faster library, I hope they add support for more cards.

: 	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). 
:
Since I haven't yet tried to run win3.11 in the dosemu I don't much about
it.  But I argee with you that DOSEMU will run Win3.11 better than Wine for
quite a while.

andy
 
 	
: Arcadio
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From: genanr@flood.xnet.com (Andrew Ryan)
Subject: Re: Q: DOSEMU/WINE & MS Office
Date: 1995/12/04
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