Re: Linux + Win95 simultaneously

Ralf Baechle (ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de)
Tue, 4 Nov 1997 09:34:55 +0100


On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 12:22:11AM -0500, Steve Przepiora wrote:
> why waste your time writing emulators to run software from other OS's,
> it seems to me, just think if all that effort was pointed to developing
> new software to run natively on linux....

It's a question of efficience. An emulator makes a whole class of software
useable immediately, porting makes this a program by program effort. A
this is all about world domination ;-)

Ralf