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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (8370)	12/29/1999 2:11:00 PM
From: mowa	Read Replies (1) of 9798

Thomas, Thanks for the good reply. I would like to clarify that WINE (which stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is not an emulator, but rather a 1) remapping of Win32 program API calls to the appropriate ELF libraries, (more of a redirector). 2)an effort to provide the background whereby Win32 apps can be easily recompiled for Unix/Linux to run natively. In cases where the API work is complete for a given program the speed and functionality under WINE is usually reported as, as good as or better than under WinX, the problem is when a program makes an API call that hasn't been implemented yet. Then of course instability occurs. I do agree with your statements on the poor performance of emulators, and do not put much stock in them myself. Also do u use or set up RH6.1 or Caldera 2.2 or Corel Linux? you sound experienced with Linux, the command prompt as a necessity to install/setup/start Linux/KDE or GNOME is gone. And printer support (color inkjet in particular) was an important omission from my list, oops. Thanks for your thoughts, mowa

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