nanogui: Reaktivate
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] Reaktivate
From:
"John Zulauf" ####@####.####
Date:
10 Jul 2001 20:38:11 -0000
Message-Id: <3B4B663A.D01D46A3@ia.nsc.com>
Greg,
be warned that Reakivate does have a dependency on WINE -- and thus
ain't small -- WINE on Microwindows is an interest concept -- none of
the bloat of X -- all of the bloat of Win32... still it might add up to
a workable solution. Even viewml-on-X would be better than
Mozilla-on-X.
Call me about this, we'll talk.
Andreas Pour wrote:
> Hi,
>
> WINE currently only runs on i*86 platforms, and since all Windows
> binaries (ActiveX controls) are in that format, you would not only need
> to port WINE to the target architecture but write an i*86 emulator as
> well.
Well... x86 isn't a problem (for me ;-) see .sig link below) and
emulation would be a disaster both from a achievable performance (FX!32
and SoftWindows showed this 300MHz MIPS yielded 18-33MHz Pentium) and
power consumption standpoint. (imagine the system running FLAT OUT to
keep up with the Windows main loop... you could watch the power gauge go
to zero in realtime)
John Zulauf
Sr. Software Strategist
National Semiconductor
http://www.national.com/appinfo/solutions/0,2062,396,00.html
