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Subject: 
Re: MS IE SUCKS!
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:46:08 GMT
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mattdm@&avoidspam&mattdm.org
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Dan Boger <dan@peeron.com> wrote:
Not the same platform == not the same game. Even if it's a port. Good try
though.
but it's not a port!  winex just lets you run the original windows
version while booted to linux.  All it does is implement (in addition to

In a very real sense, it *is* the same platform.

--
Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>



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  Re: MS IE SUCKS!
 
(...) but it's not a port! winex just lets you run the original windows version while booted to linux. All it does is implement (in addition to all the API calls that wine does) the directx APIs that a lot of games use. So it really is the same (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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