On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> Justin Zygmont wrote:
> > ftp://solarflow.dyndns.org/pub/wabi
>
> [ Sorry I'm posting so much as of late.  I'm an "enthusiastic
> newbie" to this list.  Just let me know if I'm "drowning out"
> everyone else. ]
>
> Is this thing now "free [beer]" for Linux?  I.e., does Caldera "own"
> it now and has released it as such?  Or not?  Or has simply licensed
> it from someone else?
>
> [ I notice you still have to have Windows 3.x, but that's fine.  I
> actually have 4 "legal copies" myself (and none in use). ]
>
> BTW, I've never used Wabi myself, just WINE and VMWare.  I've heard
> as you said, it's the "most compatible" for 16-bit
> Windows/programs.  I pretty much understand the differences between
> ...
>
> - WINE (BSD)

I thought Wine used the MIT license?

> - Plex86 (GPL?)
> A VHM layer for UNIX/x86.  Designed to be a free VMWare replacement
> based on Bochs, which allows a number of x86 OSes to run (with
> limited results right now).

The guy who does this and Bochs got canned from Mandrake (? some Linux company)
so it's future is shaky at best.

> Is Wabi another architecture-independent/completely emulated
> approach like Bochs?  Or is it like VMWare, "'virtualized', but
> still 'actual' x86 hardware usage"?  I've seen Wabi for Solaris, or
> is that just Solaris/x86?  Or is the Wabi for Linux[/x86] a
> "Linux/86 customized" one?

I don't know what wabi is* but, I know they make x86 sbus cards for Sparcs so
you can run windows programs under Solaris.

* meaning in a technical sense, I do remember Wabi from years ago

brian
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