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osViews: osViews Interviews Jim White from the Darwine Project

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 22, 2004

[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill
for this link. ]

osViews: ‘Could you summarize what the Darwine
project is and what you hope to accomplish with it?’

Jim White: ‘Darwine was an inspiration that
occurred when I saw the development of BOCHS come along. I thought,
‘wouldn’t it be brilliant if you could take wine and instead of
emulating an entire operating system, which struck me as being a
terrible waste, be able to run Windows applications directly under
the Mac operating system without having to virtualize the whole
separate operating system environment…””


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