10 Sep
1998
10 Sep
'98
10:25 a.m.
On 10 Sep 98, at 9:26, John Foust wrote:
Freedows is an interesting effort to run Windows apps
under Linux:
<http://www.freedows.org/english/high/index.html>.
Freedows isn't trying to run Windows apps under Linux. They are
building a whole new OS with the idea of being able to run apps
from several different operating systems at the same
time. The
last plan I heard from them was to start with an OS that could run
Windows and DOS apps and then add Linux and Mac apps in the
next release. Keeping this on-topic, they also plan to handle apps
from classic systems naming the C64 and Coco as planned
systems. This is something I've wanted since working on IBM
mainframes in the late 70s. I've wanted a VM style setup where I
could run different OSs on "virtual machines" on the same box.
Over the years that's evolved into an OS which would just be able
to handle seamless apps from several different systems. Ok, I can
dream. Freedows, if they can pull it off, might actually do just that.
I'd like to work on some application kernels (as they call them) for
some of my classic systems.
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