On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 10:55:17AM -0700, Ted Lemon wrote:
> 
> > Apparently there is a product called WINE that is a 32bit version
> > of WABI, which allows you to run 16bit Windoze apps on linux. I know
> > this 'aint a linux group, but I would have thought it similar.
> 
> I've been using WINE for about a year to run the 16bit version of
> Quicken 5.0.   It works.   Sort of.   I don't consider it reliable,
> and I'm planning to wean myself of it.

I think that it's worth keeping an eye on if you have a
particular need.  I've been doing serious work with the WNT
versions of the Motorola DSP development tools, for a year or so
now.  I found that they run better under Wine than the 16-bit
windows versions ran under dos/windows, so now I've terminated the
dreaded edit-reboot-compile-test-reboot cycle.  It's even
reasonable to wrap the wine invocations in little scripts, and
use them from a Makefile under emacs.

> Wine has been "under
> development" for almost five years now, IIRC, and it's still
> prerelease quality.   I've seen no evidence that it's converging.   So
> while I think it's a great idea, I don't think you should consider it
> a viable way to get work done.   Sigh.

Well, it is chasing a moving target.  I haven't updated for some
considerable time, because the configuration I have does what I
want completely reliably.  I've heard that recent modifications
have been directed to supporting Win-32 threads, which has
implications for the BSDs, because most of the development work
is being done under Linux.  I'll keep reading the news group,
checking it out occasionally, and nagging the developers to
produce Unix versions of the tools...

-- 
Andrew