Charlie Stross
Michael Newton@[email protected] "... they never stopped to ask if they should!"
It's a very impressive piece of work though! I love it.
Charlie Stross (@[email protected])
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Oblomov@cstross oh yeah, it was announced here yesterday
https://hails.org/@hailey/116446826733136456
and this comment here is the most appropriate response IMO:
Hailey (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it! Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x
James Kemp@cstross I loved W95 when it first came out, but if anything it'd be better to run it as a sub-system of Linux rather than the other way round
JdeBPIt is interesting that this is on the flavour of Windows, DOS+Windows, that was not even designed to have subsystems and personalities. That was Windows NT.
Amusingly, the screenshot is not using the correct terminal type. Yes, there is in fact a terminfo entry that should be correct for this, that has been there for 30 years, waiting.
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.ti.html#tic-nansi_sys
Hailey
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