Messages in this thread | | | Date | 13 Mar 1996 18:11:36 GMT | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | Re: A dos based Linux system |
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Jurgen Botz: Well, the idea is not so far-fetched... obviously calling it a "DOS extender" is stretching the term (beyond its elasticity), but the idea is that app vendors /could/ use this approach to sell their Unix packages to DOS users without having to port them... just ship it with a UMSDOS based Linux kernel (with all drivers as modules), shared libs and a special init. Details of how to make this work left as an exercise to the reader.
Note that a standard init could be used, as long as the system initialization code (naming details depend on which particular init) was configured for the application. [Note that dos command line parameters can be made to show up in environmental variables in linux -- all it takes is a batch file to call loadlin{,x} that declares the appropriate variables.
-- Raul
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