From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 06/02/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: dosemu and windows
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 23:11:24 GMT

In article <1993Jun2.103427.6034@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>Real Windows calls are made to the windows kernel, which just happens to be
>a dynamic link library. In essence your program is dynamically linked with
>the windows kernel. This is a standard technique finding favour in modern
>systems - the newer sys5 stuff is aiming that way too.

Back To The Future? ---didn't Multics do essentially this as well? With
many differences, of course, since Multics had such things as support for
multiple address spaces within a process; I'd expect that the kernel got its
own address space(s).

++Brandon 

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