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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (878)	1/18/1999 6:53:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2617

But let's not wine about it. Ms has not Linux emulation and cannot read Linux files except through Samba, a Unix program. Linux however can read Windows files and other files systems as well. Minix, Solaris, SCO are three. As a matter of fact Linux can run SCO and Solaris binaries as well. I see a day when Linux will be able to run all windows binaries in a crash free environment. Wine needs more help. The problem is of course that the windows API is not open and never will be. Linux may be the start of a great interoperational virtual machine experiment that Java was intended to be. Why not pioneer a system where verifiable programs can run distributed code fragments from anyhwhere through an insulated Linux machine. After all XML shows some promise of doing database and display universality. This avenue should be expanded on so that Linux has an XML type interface. One might call it a browser but I see it as a multi headed modulativator machine. Why not an XML display/data system? merufsaho wuqiouwr lepitsnoodlefarky pythlabreg EC<:-}

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (878)	1/18/1999 7:42:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 2617

Technically, Wine is _not_ an emulator. The article mistakenly says that Wine stands for 'Windows Emulator', but it really stands for 'Wine Is Not an Emulator'. Like XINU means "XINU Is Not Unix". The problem is that head recursion is inefficient (and in these two cases don't terminate) and they should have figured out a tail-recursive acronym.