Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module

From: Simon Richter (Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 04:53:03 EST

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On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> > I've done an implementation of some of the Win32 "system calls" in a kernel
> > module in an attempt to speed up Wine.

> 1. Linux is UNIX not NT... (in terms of API)

What about a Win32 personality?

> 2. WINE in itself is barely usefull - even in fact non existant, since
> there is
> no official stable release out there.

Erm, ever seen Adobe Photopaint for Linux? It's basically the Windows .exe
plus a wine that can do all the syscalls Photopaint needs.

Simon

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