singer at redbrick.dcu.ie wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 03:15:56PM +0000, Dave Burke wrote:
> > So does this mean that M$ would be bringing out what is essentially fbsd
> > products? (ok so IE for HP-UX already exists, but you know what I mean!),
>> I've got IE5 on my Ultra5 workstation - It's out for Sparc Solaris, but not
> for X86 Solaris. Sun seemed to be able to port Solaris to X86, changing 5% of
> the code - I've got the feeling that a OS is more hardware dependant than a
> web browser. So, it's more than likely trivial for Microsoft to release IE5
> for X86. Do you think they would? God no, it would threaten (yeh right, the
> browser is good, but not that good ;) ) Windows on Intel platform. If they're
> not willing to bother porting IE5 to X86 Solaris (It's gotta be a days work or
> so), they're even more unlikely to port to FreeBSD/Linux.
>> Some people do say that it's a matter of time until Office comes out for Linux
> etc. though.
As I understand it, IE for Unix runs on top of a Windows Registry emulation
layer written my Microsoft, which is one of the reasons it's cumbersome.
Vin
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