Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:22:29 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@pechter.ddns.org> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape browser Message-ID: <199903230222.VAA23759@pechter.ddns.org> In-Reply-To: <43958.922144053@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 22, 1999 3: 7:33 pm"
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> Actually, I think IBM showed it to be suicidal by not doing a very
> good job of it in OS/2. Otherwise, it was a fine idea. The WINE and
> WABI projects also did their best but failed (or are failing) because
> they didn't do a good enough job, not because it was a bad job to try
> and do.
> - Jordan
Actually their emulation is top rate for Win-16. The Win32 stuff was
continuously screwed by Microsoft changing the Win32 out from under them.
First they defined Win32s. Then they ignored it.
By the time they hit Win32S 1.25 they pretty much guaranteed that IBM would
have had to reverse engineer Win95 and NT to get it to work.
--Bill
Who still successfully runs Win16 apps (including full TCP/IP stuff)
under OS/2 v4).
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