From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 22 18:23:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from shell.monmouth.com (shell.monmouth.com [205.231.236.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE72814F59 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:22:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pechter@pechter.ddns.org) Received: from pechter.ddns.org (bg-tc-ppp930.monmouth.com [209.191.51.116]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA04304; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:22:27 -0500 (EST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by pechter.ddns.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) id VAA23759; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:22:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pechter) From: Bill Pechter Message-Id: <199903230222.VAA23759@pechter.ddns.org> Subject: Re: Netscape browser In-Reply-To: <43958.922144053@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 22, 1999 3: 7:33 pm" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:22:29 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-OS-Type: FreeBSD 3.0-Stable X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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). --- bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.ddns.org Three things never anger: First, the one who runs your DEC, The one who does Field Service and the one who signs your check. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message