Win Software on Linux

[Ed Fletcher]

Lindsay wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 05:17 +0100, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> 
>>Lindsay wrote:
>>
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>>>Informed by a friend, there is/are programs that allow Linux users to
>>>use some Windows 
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>>  Yup. But you have to use Linux on x86. Checkout http://www.winehq.com/
>>
>>--
>>Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski, still sick, still at work..
> 
> 
> It's a new PC.  How do I tell if it is x86?
> 
> 


He's referring to a computer with an Intel (Pentium 4, Centrino) or AMD 
(Athlon, Sempron, XP) chip that traces it's roots back to the Intel 8086 
microprocessor in the early 1990's.  As opposed to a different 
architecture like a PowerPC or a Sparc.  If the vendor offered your 
computer with WinXP or Win2K, then it is most likely an x86.

Ed
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