31 Mar
2014
31 Mar
'14
8:51 a.m.
On 30 March 2014 13:23, jim s <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
This was a very early and horribly priced bit to run
X86 code on sun
systems.
Internally and elsewhere I heard is was called "What a Bunch of Idiots"
Anyway some idiot has a cd he thinks is worth $599 on epay right now.
You don't specify which eBay site or an item number or anything and I
can't find anything on eBay with "sun wabi".
I have a copy of the later WABI product from Caldera. It was a good
idea in theory - basically it was a predecessor to WINE and WINE works
pretty well now. I used WABI on Caldera OpenLinux and it worked quite
well for MS Office and a couple of other things.
The big snag with WABI was that it needed a legal copy of Windows 3.1
to work, so you needed the licenses anyway.
It was a hopelessly na?ve idea of Sun's to forcibly open-source the
Windows API, but hey, they nearly got their and they showed that the
idea had merit. At the time, though, Locus DOS/Merge worked better.
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