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Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 19:53:12 -0500
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From: Clinton Jeffery <jeffery@segfault.cs.utsa.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <s5601572.016@housmtp.oceaneering.com> (message from Charles
Hethcoat on Mon, 18 May 1998 11:01:53 -0500)
Subject: UNIX on top of NT
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[Charlie Hethcoat pointed us at an article on OpenNT, a commercial UNIX
package that runs on top of Windows NT.]
That article in Performance Computing sounds interesting. UNIX on NT people
might also be interested in a paper by Korn from the 1997 USENIX conference
which describes a full UNIX implementation on NT done at AT&T that consists
of libraries and command-line programs that run on NT and Win95. Their
package co-exists with the Win32 stuff in the same application.
In both te case of OpenNT and the AT&T thing, the main problem I have is
that the software is not quite free enough to base Windows Icon upon it.
I will work on, or work with people on, a Windows implementation of the POSIX
facilities provided by Unicon. If any of these UNIX on NT packages are
really free software, they might make the job easier, but a large subset
of Unicon can be done on Windows fairly easily in any case. It is mostly
a question of finding the time (or the right person) to do it.
Clint Jeffery, jeffery@cs.utsa.edu
Division of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Research http://www.cs.utsa.edu/research/plss.html