On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:32:40 +0200 "Alfred M\. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. So, you agree that it's possible emulate POSIX in a non POSIX system, this is a good point =) > > 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? If we create a layer, they will run natively on this new design. And, as I said, many programs could be adapted to use the best resources of this new design, others will need to run on a special layer/emulator as long as they are not adapted to run in the best way of this new design. This is not silly/weird/strange/etc. Many systems do that when they do big changes on their design, why we cannot do that? -- leonardolopespereira at gmail.com GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) ID da chave: 83E8AFBF | servidor: keys.indymedia.org gpg --keyserver keys.indymedia.org --recv-keys 83E8AFBF
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