[Wine] Ångström Linux run wine?

James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 26 09:18:47 CDT 2010


roderakker <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>DaVince wrote:
>> The device appears to have an ARM processor, not an x86 one. That means that while might be able to compile on the system, it won't be able to actually run any Windows apps as they are programmed for x86 architectures (that is, any regular desktop).
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>then how can wine run on a mac? isn't that a different architecture aswell? this is interesting.
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MacIntosh computers for the last two years have used Intel processors.  PowerPCs have the QEMU project which converts most, but not all, Intel CISC processor calls to PowerPC RISC calls.  This makes running any Windows program very slow....

James McKenzie




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