From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 8 18:15:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22686 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:15:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22672 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:15:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA24448; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:13:08 -0800 (PST) To: Amancio Hasty cc: "Alfred Perlstein" , "Terry Lambert" , "David Kelly" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Mar 1998 12:11:27 PST." <199803082011.MAA22595@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 18:13:07 -0800 Message-ID: <24443.889409587@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Actually, there was company dedicated with a product similar to wine > and they required just a little push which we didn't give them. Wine has always required more than a "little push", it's required a Saturn rocket up the ass. When compared to real solutions like SoftPC from Insignia solutions, it's not even close to being sufficient for the intended purpose (running popular Win95 binaries, in case people forgot) and I doubt that it ever will be. Sorry for the rampant pessimism but I've watched that project for going on 3 years now and I think I could grow old and die waiting for it to bear any real fruit. They bit off more than they could chew and it wouldn't be the first time somebody's done that. At this point, I'd say it'd be better to simply work on making BOCHS perform well and forget WINE ever existed. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message