Microsoft's version of "WINE"

[Srdjan Matovina -- Customer Engineering]

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

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>From: "Sander Wichers" <wichers at usa.net>
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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 at sun.com
Ph.(905) 415-2883 Fax.(905) 477-0217