I (personally) think that the Wikipedia page sums it up quite nicely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi_%28software%29
Jerry
On 03/30/14 07:23 AM, jim s 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.
I don't know that you could activate it w/o someone at Sun getting you a key,
but even so it is a lot over the top.
Found in my sweep for interesting "emulators".
there is also a cd for "SoftWindows" for only $399.
My original search w/o tuning used to sweep up some religious cult who used the
term, as well as a huge number of folks who used the term to refer to something
sold to defeat encryption on Satellite boxes.
That business all died when the 8' dishes out on the farm gave way to Dish and
the like with real encryption.
Jim