Re: Microsoft's version of "WINE"

[Srdjan Matovina -- Customer Engineering]

They use MainWin from MainSoft Inc.
See http://www.mainsoft.com
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> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:20:35 +0100
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> Hi,
>
> Maybe you guys already seen this, and it's old news for you... but i'll post
> this anyway in case you didn't know. It can be a good thing to learn from.
>
> I do not own a SUN or a HP-UX system. But I was just interested how
> microsoft implemented IE 4 / IE 5 on HP-UX and SUN. So I extracted their
> installation files to disk. It seems that microsoft made their own version
> of wine. It's amazing that they didn't modified IE to run on unix. Instead
> they made the choice to emulate all the windows functionality. And compile
> IE on that. Microsoft is ready to run their applications on linux. They have
> a complete "system" libary full of ported functionality to SUN and HP-UX...
> all the libaries are there, libkernel32.so etc.... It's also nice to see how
> they seperated the resources from the binaries. and let the kernel deal with
> these resource files.
>
> Has any one of you looked into these system libaries? Is this information
> relevant to anyone?
>
> bye,
>
> Sander Wichers

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Srdjan Matovina
Sun Microsystems Inc. 
SunPS Integration Services/ Americas Customer Engineering
srdjan.matovina(a)sun.com
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Microsoft's version of "WINE"

[Uwe Bonnes]

> > > > > "Srdjan" == Srdjan Matovina <-- Customer Engineering <srdjan(a)scot.canada.sun.com>> writes:

Srdjan> They use MainWin from MainSoft Inc.  See http://www.mainsoft.com

To my knowledge, a run-time licence (!) is in the price order of a normal
windows license. This makes it prohibitive for other companies to use...

Bye
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