Author: José Carlos
Date: 01:29:29 03/15/01
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On March 14, 2001 at 17:40:22, James Swafford wrote: >On March 14, 2001 at 16:31:10, Pete Galati wrote: > >> >>Ok, my appolgies. But as I understand it, it's not the Linux OS itself right? >>It's more or less a Windows substute that runs on Linux. >> >>Pete > > >Close enough. It's an emulator... it allows you to run Windows executables >on Linux. It doesn't support the entire Windows API, so some programs >may not run. The ones that do will suffer a performance penalty for the >extra layer of processing. > >-- >James Maybe when running graphical applications, but I've tried my program (windows compile in console mode) under linux with wine, and works exactly as fast as under windows. Anyway, that was my only experiment with wine, so other applications may, in fact suffer such a performance penalty, I don't know. José C.
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