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- From: dale@mkseast.uucp (Dale Gass)
- Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls
- Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Atlantic Canada Branch
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:07:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.190746.4106@mkseast.uucp>
- References: <1993Jan22.232051.28262@microsoft.com> <727810939snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>
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- chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:
- >*Three* different subsystems? There's:
-
- Not to belabour my point in an earlier posting, but...:
-
- > Win32
- Yup, a binary compatability box makes sense for old binaries...
- > Win16 ("WOW")
- Yup, a binary compatability box makes sense for old binaries...
- > DOS
- Yup, a binary compatability box makes sense for old binaries...
- > OS/2
- Yup, a binary compatability box makes sense for old binaries...
- > Posix
- Huh? There are no existing Posix binaries for the subsystem, you
- have to build them on NT. Why not just extend the NT API
- sufficiently. (Because it will make the NT API hairier? That
- doesn't seem to have been a concern so far in NT :-))
-
- >>My comments are my own. They are independent and unrelated to the
- >>views of my company , relatives or elected representatives.
-
- Ditto...
-
- -dale
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- Dale Gass, Mortice Kern Systems, Atlantic Canada Branch
- Business: dale@east.mks.com, Pleasure: dale@mkseast.uucp
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