Autor: Dorota Madajczyk - System Engineer (Dorota.Madajczyk_at_Poland.Sun.COM)
Data: Wed 14 Sep 1994 - 17:56:40 MET DST
Przepraszam, nie nadazam za ta goraca dyskusja ;)
Quote from WABI Technical Backgrounder:
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Wabi provides a unique approach to running PC applications on UNIX.
Unlike PC emulation technology, Wabi does not require MS-DOS or Microsoft
Windows to work. Nor does Wabi require Windows applications be recompiled
for the UNIX environment. Wabi allows Windows applications to run of-the-shelf
on UNIX by translating the application to the UNIX environment while
the application is running.
On the average, Windows applications written to the Win16 API spend most of
their time making calls to the Windows kernel about 60% to 80% of all calls.
Most of these API calls are associated with the User Interface aspects of the
application, such as menus, displaying text, and scrolling.
Wabi translates the Win16 API calls to Xlib calls,
the set of APIs for X Windows environments
based on the X11 standard. Wabi allows Microsoft Windows applications to
run on both RISC- and X86-based UNIX systems equally well. When running Wabi on an X86 version of UNIX, instructions that aren't handled by the Windows API are passed directly to the X86 processor, just as they would be in a native
Microsoft Windows environment.
In RISC implementations of UNIX, Wabi uses a CPU simulator.
The simulator translates X86 instructions to the associated RISC instructions,
executes them and returns the appropriate value to the Windows application.
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Dorota Madajczyk
> From polip_at_zsku.p.lodz.pl Wed Sep 14 13:01 MET 1994
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 10:48:29 +0200
> Originator: polip_at_zsku.p.lodz.pl
> From: amarecki_at_mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Andrzej Marecki)
> To: dora_at_atm.com.pl
> Subject: Re: WABI
> X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0 -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas
> X-Comment: Lista na temat polskiego Internetu
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> > Do uruchamiania "Binariow z PC" instnieje oprogramowanie SunPC,
> > dzialajace na zasadzie emulacji, nie translacji jak WABI.
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> A tak konkretnie, to co w tym kontekscie znaczy slowo "translacja".
> >
> >
> > Postaram sie przeslac wiecej informacji w Poniedzialek.
> Mamy wlasnie srode. ;-)
>
> AM
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