<s>
Wabi	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
discontinued	O
commercial	O
software	O
application	O
from	O
Sun	O
Microsystems	O
that	O
implements	O
the	O
Windows	B-Application
Win16	O
API	B-General_Concept
specification	O
on	O
Solaris	B-Application
and	O
AIX	B-Application
;	O
a	O
version	O
for	O
Linux	B-Application
was	O
also	O
released	O
by	O
Caldera	O
Systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Wabi	B-General_Concept
runs	O
applications	O
developed	O
for	O
Windows	B-Application
3.1	I-Application
,	O
Windows	B-Application
3.11	O
,	O
and	O
Windows	B-Application
for	O
Workgroups	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
technology	O
was	O
originally	O
developed	O
by	O
Praxsys	O
Technologies	O
as	O
the	O
result	O
of	O
discussions	O
in	O
1990	O
with	O
Interactive	B-Operating_System
Systems	I-Operating_System
Corporation	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
name	O
"	O
Wabi	B-General_Concept
"	O
was	O
chosen	O
for	O
two	O
reasons	O
:	O
its	O
meaning	O
in	O
Japanese	O
of	O
balance	O
or	O
harmony	O
,	O
which	O
conjured	O
the	O
notion	O
of	O
a	O
more	O
peaceful	O
coexistence	O
between	O
Windows	B-Application
and	O
Unix	B-Application
software	O
;	O
and	O
,	O
the	O
more	O
obvious	O
implication	O
of	O
it	O
standing	O
for	O
Windows	B-General_Concept
Application	I-General_Concept
Binary	I-General_Concept
Interface	I-General_Concept
,	O
although	O
before	O
its	O
release	O
Sun	O
declared	O
that	O
the	O
name	O
was	O
not	O
an	O
acronym	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Wabi	B-General_Concept
2.2B	O
was	O
licensed	O
by	O
Caldera	O
to	O
allow	O
its	O
users	O
to	O
run	O
Windows	B-Application
applications	I-Application
under	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
together	O
with	O
the	O
also	O
licensed	O
Merge	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Wabi	B-General_Concept
development	O
was	O
discontinued	O
in	O
December	O
1997	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Wabi	B-General_Concept
requires	O
a	O
Windows	B-Application
3.x	O
installation	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
work	O
,	O
meaning	O
that	O
it	O
also	O
requires	O
a	O
Windows	B-Application
license	O
,	O
unlike	O
similar	O
software	O
that	O
endeavors	O
to	O
implement	O
the	O
entire	O
Windows	B-Application
API	B-General_Concept
,	O
such	O
as	O
Wine	B-Application
or	O
select	O
versions	O
of	O
OS/2	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
basic	O
premise	O
of	O
the	O
product	O
is	O
to	O
provide	O
an	O
emulation	O
of	O
the	O
lowest	O
layers	O
of	O
the	O
Windows	B-Application
environment	O
in	O
the	O
form	O
of	O
the	O
user.dll	O
,	O
kernel.dll	O
and	O
gdi.dll	O
libraries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
all	O
other	O
Windows	B-Application
dlls	O
depend	O
on	O
these	O
three	O
modules	O
,	O
cloning	O
this	O
functionality	O
allows	O
Windows	B-Application
applications	I-Application
and	O
their	O
associated	O
support	O
dlls	O
to	O
execute	O
correctly	O
on	O
a	O
foreign	O
host	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Wabi	B-General_Concept
was	O
released	O
for	O
both	O
x86	B-Operating_System
and	O
SPARC	B-Architecture
systems	O
and	O
also	O
on	O
PowerPC	B-Architecture
for	O
AIX	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
order	O
to	O
run	O
an	O
x86	B-Operating_System
Windows	B-Application
environment	O
on	O
SPARC	B-Architecture
systems	O
,	O
a	O
code	O
translation	O
layer	O
was	O
also	O
provided	O
,	O
which	O
dynamically	O
converts	O
x86	B-Operating_System
instructions	O
on	O
first	O
use	O
into	O
SPARC	B-Architecture
instructions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
conjunction	O
with	O
its	O
development	O
of	O
the	O
Wabi	B-General_Concept
software	O
,	O
Sun	O
initiated	O
an	O
effort	O
to	O
create	O
an	O
ISO	O
standard	O
,	O
non-proprietary	O
definition	O
of	O
the	O
Windows	B-Application
API	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Public	O
Windows	B-Application
Interface	O
(	O
PWI	O
)	O
was	O
intended	O
to	O
define	O
a	O
publicly	O
available	O
standard	O
that	O
would	O
help	O
Sun	O
and	O
other	O
companies	O
that	O
wished	O
to	O
clone	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
programming	O
interface	O
(	O
such	O
as	O
Willows	O
TWIN	O
,	O
another	O
LGPL	O
'd	O
implementation	O
of	O
the	O
API	B-General_Concept
)	O
,	O
but	O
despite	O
Sun	O
's	O
contention	O
that	O
there	O
was	O
no	O
intellectual	O
property	O
breach	O
,	O
this	O
effort	O
was	O
lobbied	O
against	O
at	O
ISO	O
by	O
Microsoft	O
,	O
being	O
rejected	O
in	O
1996	O
.	O
</s>
