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In <308C0278.5662@dtek.chalmers.se> Martin Nisshagen <d4nisse@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:

>Clifford, T., Matthews, <ctm@ardi.com> wrote:
>
>> It depends on what your day to day work is.  Executor running compute
>> intensive programs *if they work*, on a 90 MHz Pentium will run about
>> 60% faster than they would on a 25 MHz 68040 base Mac.  At ARDI we
>> wrote a 100 page manual running Microsoft Word for the Macintosh under
>> Executor (Microsoft Word is not available for Linux).  Our customers
>> have other uses for Executor.
>
>Wouldn't it make much more sense for Linux users to devlop some Windows
>emulation and simply run Word for Windows instead? That way You only
>have to emulate the API:s, but not the CPU (if You run Linux x86).

This is precisely what's happening.  The project name is WINE (WINdows
Emulator) and it can run some apps, amongst them the strategic app known
under the name of SOL.EXE :-)

The project is far from being completed, but there is a FAQ somewhere,
describing what it can do right now.

Dan
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