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Anyone rmember WABI that Sun did long ago (I have a Linux version floating around somewhere). Although it was Win 3.x only, it did a decent job at the time.
by derekp7 13y ago
Anyone rmember WABI that Sun did long ago (I have a Linux version floating around somewhere). Although it was Win 3.x only, it did a decent job at the time.
- Someone 13y agoIt also was much less ambitious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi_(software): "Wabi required a Windows 3.x installation in order to work, meaning that it would also require a Windows license, unlike similar software that endeavored to implement the entire Windows API, such as Wine. The basic premise of the product was to provide an emulation of the lowest layers of the Windows environment in the form of the user.dll, kernel.dll and gdi.dll libraries. As all other Windows dlls depended on these three modules, cloning this functionality allowed Windows applications and their associated support dlls to execute correctly. This approach, as opposed to a full replacement, was thought by the engineering team to be the only rational methodology for success given both the size of Microsoft's ever-expanding efforts and the difficulties of the emulation being precise enough to run commercial grades of software."