Re: [ILUG] PCs for schools, MS tax and WINE

From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Tue 28 Aug 2001 - 12:04:52 IST

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On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:38:06AM +0100, David O'Callaghan mentioned:
> Then you *do* need a Microsoft Windows licence. disks != licence.
> Also, I think Wine can do a fair bit of 16bit emulation stuff. Maybe.

Modern versions of wine do a lot more. They also do win32 and DirectX
emulation.

Kate

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