AMS said that EMACS is a example that software that could be problematic to port to this new design, but on http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ has systems that are not implementations of POSIX, like MS DOS.
Emacs runs in a POSIX enviroment on MS-DOG if I recall correctly (it uses DJGPP which emulates large parts of POSIX or so), same deal for the Windows port. I am not able to see how hard is implement a layer (or an emulator) to support legacy POSIX programs on the detriment of a POSIX system that has almost no techinical advantage. I am not saying that he is wrong, but I am not undertanding Alfred's point of view. What you are saying more or less is that GNU programs (existing ones) shouldn't run nativley on the GNU system, don't you find that a bit silly/weird/strange/etc? _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
