Re: A dos based Linux system

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:17:30 PST


>
> On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Hasdi R Hashim wrote:
> > Yeah cool! Maybe somebody might want to create a 'dos-based linux system'.
> > That a way I can run linuxdoom or abuse from DOS. Probably make it a
> > standard package in Dos-C. :)
> >
> > Hasdi
> This is not such a silly idea, you may have heard of a little program called
> GO32.EXE - the most original part of DGJPP, well there's been a item on my
> 'Wouldn't it be nice if' list for quite a while ...
>
> > Wouldn't it be nice if GO32.EXE could run a linux executable, like GCC!
>

I think it would be call vmlinuz.exe. ;-)

Much more reasonable to run dosemu and run dos applications.

what go32 was a memory management stub load...with dpmi, it went away...

-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
Member of the League for Programming Freedom