Re: A dos based Linux system

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:05:08 PST


>d
> Sure.... but I think what makes dos-based linux system attractive is that
> you give people another reason do develop linux applications. You can run
> the 32-bit binaries not only on linux but also in dos/windows; people will
> just develop a single binary that works on almost all platforms. On the
> other hand, this gives another reason to stick to dos/windows, you run can
> linux binaries from there too. If we plan this right... it might go in
> favor of linux.
>
> golinux.exe! :)
>
> Hasdi
>

This is an exercise left to the interested reader.

Unix provides greater services than Ms/Dos, so you can write dosemu.
On the other hand, to write linuxemu on msdos is not realistic.

Why would anyone want to use windows ;-)

-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
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