Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/16/23:06:32
On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
> While we are there, why not just make OpenDOS Linux? IMHO, this seems to
> be where we're heading. Or would it be Linux running DOS binaries
> (instead of elf or a.out)?
>
That's probably easier than it sounds!
(assuming you already have DOSEMU)
Linux can currently run Windows binaries using 'wine <prog>' and it can
run Java binaries with either `appletviewer <prog>' or '<prog>' directly
(if Java support is in the kernel).
I think it would be fairly trivial to add magic-number detection to Linux
so it could recognize .COM and .EXE files and run DOSEMU on them
automagically (that's how the in-kernel Java execution module works).
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