operating system, tool (WABI) A software package from SunMicrosystems to allow certain Microsoft Windows

applications under the X Window System. Wabi 2.2 runs under

Solaris on SPARC, Intel, and PowerPC. Wabi works by

providing translated versions of the three core Windows

libraries, user.dll, kernel.dll, and gdi.dll which

redirect Windows calls to Solaris equivalents. For code other

than core library calls Wabi either executes the instructions

directly on the hardware, if it is Intel, or emulates them,

either one instruction at a time or by translating a block of

instructions and caching the result (e.g. for a loop).