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Hardware Windows emulator
Pathos:
I'm thinking of buying a second cpu and connecting it to the my mouse keyboard and screen using an adapter so I can swap between both. the whole thing would cost about $150USD
There has been rumours about dual processor pcs that can simultaneously run two operating systems and switch between them. Mainly between MacOSX & Windows.
the whole point of wine is you don't have to buy extra hardware.
noob:
An easier way to say it would be using say linux to skin windows so all the program outputs are tranfered to the linux box and the controls are sent to the windows one. Like a hardware version of wine.
Jack2000:
i have yet to find
a hardware emulator
an emulator that will emulate a system on
pure hardware level with bios and all...
WMD:
Those exist. They used to put them in Macs so they could run Windows 3.1. Obviously, those cards won't work in any PC.
piratePenguin:
Sounds like a cool idea.
What if you just had a program (a server) running on the Windows machine listening on a network port for instructions to start programs that sends the contents of any windows back? The client could send mouse/keyboard events to the server which could generate the events for the application.
Kinda reminds me of an idea I once had to have a program running alongside an X server which listens for higher-level drawing operations (e.g. button with title 'hello world!', like GTK+) than the X server does (with Xlib). The server would use Xlib to have the buttons etc. drawn. This would have the advantage of graphical programs running over the network using less bandwidth. Handier I think than makeing an Xlib extension.
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