Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:34:48 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Benjamin D Chambers <chambersb AT juno DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
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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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