Microsoft "Windows for Linux"

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at matchmail.com
Fri May 11 00:03:16 CDT 2001


On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:37:26AM +0200, Rolf Magnus wrote:
> Alfredo Cole wrote:
> 
> > At the risk of being flamed for an OT discussion, I'll tell you. VMware is
> > derived from the Plex86 project.
> 
> No, you are not flamed for being OT (at least not by me), but for writing 
> nonsense. VMWare is not derived from plex86. Plex86's old name is 
> FreeMWare, because it was intened as a free replacement for VMWare. Plex86 
> is based on bochs.
> 
> > It requires that you create a fixed-sized
> > file to emmulate a hard disk to install Windows in it. It is also much
> > slower on the same hardware.
> 
> I'd say it's not that slower, because it only emulates the CPU for 
> privileged instructions. 
> 
> > Any way, you can download a demo and give it a try. You may find that it
> > fits your needs. Ah, one more thing: You can not run any software that
> > accesses hardware directly (That rules out most games).
> 
> Which games do such things?
> 
Probably ones when win95 first came out, before they had direct3d, and
definitely dos games.

Mike




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