On Friday 08 December 2006 13:48, Jens Gulden wrote: > WINE is an operating-system running in user-space. It smashes the > usual dichotomy "a piece of software is either an operating system or > an application". WINE is _both_ an OS _and_ an application. At first > sight a joke for computer-scientists, but probably the most ingenious > idea in the history of software-development yet... Not only that but it's also a truly astounding piece of reverse-engineering. Universities should be describing it in engineering classes as an example of how to persist at a problem, tackling it bit by bit till the whole thing is solved. And then, not only solving it but making the new one usually more efficient than the original in most cases. And remember that the wine devs still got it done despite the original Win32 API being obfuscated as much as humanly possible. alan _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
