And then there was this: the 86open project. https://web.archive.org/web/20010424134601/Www.telly.org/86open
On Aug 2, 2017, 12:35, at 12:35, David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: >On 02/08/17 11:44 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:23:05AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk >wrote: >>> And almost exactly two decades after Sun/Caldera killed Wabi - the >>> Windows-16 Application Binary Interface for Solaris/Linux. Funny how >>> things come around … >> Remember when Linux had a layer to run x86 BSD binaries? Now freebsd >> can run linux binaries instead. I think it was called iBCS back in >> the day. >> >> http://www.skrenta.com/rt/man/iBCS.9.html >> >Yes: intel defined a standard mechanism, which everyone did variations >on. It was therefor to put in an "interpreter" for different OSs, where > >interpreter meant the code that interprets systems calls and dispatched > >them. I remember looking over Drew's shoulder at the code for SCO >binaries. Solaris 86 had an interpreter for Linux, Linux an interpreter > >for Solaris 86. > >--dave > >-- >David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify >System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest >dav...@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >--- >Talk Mailing List >talk@gtalug.org >https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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