On 02/08/17 11:44 AM, Lennart Sorensen 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
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:23:05AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: the day.
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 davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain