Subject: Re: Win_nt vs OS2
From: Alvin Starr <alvin AT eyepoint DOT com>
To: dlgreen AT ingr DOT com
Date: 	Tue, 9 Feb 1993 18:12:42 -0500
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Ultimately It will be possible to port all of the various GNU and other PDish
POSIX(UN*X) software. To just about any platform that you care to think of.
We have a portable, hosted O/S that will run POSIX(U*IX) software on several
versions of DOS and extenders(DOS bare, DOS/DV, DOS/DVX), we also have a level
of compatibility with IBCS2(V.2 for the 386). In the future we expect to have
ports to OS/2 and NT.

The NT port will only work if MS publishes enough information to allow 
porting of new API to the NT kernel. MS has at various times hinted that they
would allow this.

So that within a year or so it should be possible to take any POSIX(UNI*)
application that will compile on a BSD like system and make it run on the OS
of your choice.

Ultimately this will make it much easier to port software down from workstations
to desktop like systems. At that point a lot of the discussion about what
software has been ported and what its limitations are should go away.
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