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- From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Message-ID: <By1KJ8.5u8@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 01:09:06 GMT
- References: <17612@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- Reply-To: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
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- Quoting Neklan_Brozensky@mindlink.bc.ca (Neklan Brozensky) in article <17612@mindlink.bc.ca>:
- >BTW I'm a new linux user, and like the original poster of this thread, I
- >agree that A simple prepackaged Xwindow linux could really make some noise on
- >the desktop, but *only* when it has DOS compatibility.
-
- I'd go with this. Linux already has an 8086 emulation mode, I believe;
- is it really hard to do an "80386-in-priv-mode" emulation? It means
- catching all the exceptions when it tries to execute a privileged
- instruction, doing ``the right thing'' for that instruction, and
- returning control; but it means that people can run Windows in a
- compatibility box. Having done that, they could even run one of those
- products that allows X and Windows side-by-side, and put Unix sessions
- in those X windows. Heavy and slow, but if they really want Windows...
- note that I only know about these things in theory, and not in practice.
-
- I'd also suggest you *sell* it. Find people who want to make money
- supporting it, put it in a pretty box with lots of disks and nice
- manuals and stuff, and let people find out about the license as a
- pleasant surprise when they get it. You want it on shelves in computer
- shops...
-
- ...but maybe you know all this stuff already.
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