John Sequeira

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Thursday, May 09, 2002


Emulating Win32 on Linux

ReactOS, which I mentioned a few days ago, is attempting to leverage Wine to run their Windows apps. Suddenly a ground-up rewrite of Windows doesn't seem quite so ambitious.

There was another commercial endeavor to rewrite Windows in Object Pascal, and sell it like the Lindows guys. I remember reading that they'd reached a few million SLOC (source lines of code), but have since faded into obscurity.

(time passes)

I think I found it: Petros, written by some folks in Tasmania.

They say it runs simple Windows apps written in Delphi at the moment, with full compatibilty (along with native Java support) forthcoming.
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