From: cfs@mathcs.emory.edu (Charles Stephens (guest - exp 9/1/93)) Subject: Re: Linux/SCO Date: 1 Aug 1993 06:42:05 GMT
Mark A. Davis (mark@taylor.uucp) wrote:
: TONS of specific commercial quality applications may never have a suitable
: PD equivalent. Having at least ONE major expense (the OS) being
: lost does open up some $ for other things (like WP or Aster*x or such), if
: COFF software would run. To me, COFF and WABI are the key to making Linux
: not only a killer OS, programming platform, educational platform, and hacker's
: paradise, but a real applications platform too. And most people who have
: computers need them for commercial applications even if they use them for some
: other things too.
And you know, a Wabi-clone is so easy to do. All one needs is the ability
to intercept page faults (for trapping MSW calls to user, kernel, and/or gdi)
from the kernel, the MSW Developers Kit ($500), and Undocumented windows.
I say it can be done, I just don't have $500 to buy the MSW-DK. Oh well,
maybe some caring sould would be willing to loan me one?