[GTALUG] Windows 10 will let everyone run Linux inside Windows following Fall Creators Update - TechRepublic

David Collier-Brown davec-b at rogers.com
Wed Aug 2 12:34:59 EDT 2017


On 02/08/17 11:44 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:23:05AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
>> And almost exactly two decades after Sun/Caldera killed Wabi - the
>> Windows-16 Application Binary Interface for Solaris/Linux. Funny how
>> things come around …
> Remember when Linux had a layer to run x86 BSD binaries?  Now freebsd
> can run linux binaries instead.  I think it was called iBCS back in
> the day.
>
> http://www.skrenta.com/rt/man/iBCS.9.html
>
Yes: intel defined a standard mechanism, which everyone did variations 
on. It was therefor to put in an "interpreter" for different OSs, where 
interpreter meant the code that interprets systems calls and dispatched 
them.  I remember looking over Drew's shoulder at the code for SCO 
binaries. Solaris 86 had an interpreter for Linux, Linux an interpreter 
for Solaris 86.

--dave

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