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[grtoft@xxxxxxxxx (George Toft)]

joe lerch wrote:
> 
> I have spent  much of the day experimenting with dosemu, and
> wine. I really don't have any windows programs but did enjoy mshearts,
> so I used that to test wine and it ran ok but much slower than I like.
> 
> Is Wabi faster/better than wine, or about the same?

I ran Wabi/MS Office 4.3 for several months.  I could not
tell any
difference between that and running native MS Windows and
Office.

If you can find it, it works fine.  I even got Visual Basic
running
under it.

The downside is that it is for 16 bit Windows applications
only,
and only a handful.  You might be better off picking up an
old 
pentium (I traded 200 ft of UTP cable for one), and I
control
it using VNC (on the SuSE CD's - even the evaluation CD). 
My
Linux keyboard and mouse control the Windows machine, and
its
output shows up on my X display.  If you go this route, you
might
want to try using a 100mbit network - 10mbit seems a bit
slow.


-- 
George Toft                           http://gtoft.dynip.com
Hawaii Pacific University              MSIS Graduate Student
"Investigating the Effects of Organization Size, Industry,
and
Workgroup Size on Server Administration Costs and Downtime."

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