Re: Linux Binary Compatibility

2001-04-28 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 05:53:05PM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > > My only questions is: Why would we want binary compatability? Every > > OS/app that I can think of that used this as a selling feature (OS/2, > > Wine, Win95 for Win 3.1 apps) failed miserably at the emulation > > (unforseen gotchas

Re: Linux Binary Compatibility

2001-04-28 Thread Farid Hajji
> > We _could_ use this Lites approach as well in the Hurd, to provide > > binary compatibility to, say, Linux-Binaries. > > My only questions is: Why would we want binary compatability? Every > OS/app that I can think of that used this as a selling feature (OS/2, > Wine, Win95 for Win 3.1 apps)