[GTALUG] ​Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 | ZDNet

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Thu Mar 31 23:18:26 UTC 2016


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 09:54:24PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> This brings back memories...
> 
> It seems as though Microsoft has implemented a sort of equivalent to IBCS2.

Back when software was released for BSD but not Linux.  How things
have changed for the better.

> That was a kernel library sort of layer that allowed running binary for
> other UNIX flavours on Linux.  Run your old SCO apps on Linux and such...

So Microsoft is saying Linux has made it since they now have to support
its binaries?

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Len Sorensen


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