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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: PEACE - Portable Executable win32 API Compatible Environment.
In-Reply-To: <xzpr96hwiad.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at
 "Sep 18, 2000 10:34:50 pm"
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:23:10 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Takanori Watanabe <takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp>,
	freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Takanori Watanabe <takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp> writes:
> > PEACE is Win32 API Compatible environment for (Originally) NetBSD.
> > It consist of three parts: 
> > Kernel part to load PE format executable onto process memory space.
> > Dynamic Linker to link with PE format DLL.
> > Libraries to translate Win32 API call to NetBSD native system call.
> 
> What is the difference between PEACE and WINE?
> 

Wine is actually trying to completely replace MS windows (include
win3.1, win95, win98, and winnt).  SO, wine includes code  for the
old 16 bit API(s) and it is trying to replace all on the MS
dll's with built-in dll.

-- 
Steve


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