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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5216 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1061 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD+FreeBSD merge urged! Date: 19 Sep 1993 18:54:07 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 17 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Sep19145407@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <JTSILLA.93Sep12213741@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> <277do6$4hj@fw.novatel.ca> <hastyCDGHIw.L8F@netcom.com> <1993Sep18.002438.24884@diana.ocunix.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: db@diana.ocunix.on.ca's message of Sat, 18 Sep 1993 00:24:38 GMT In article <1993Sep18.002438.24884@diana.ocunix.on.ca> db@diana.ocunix.on.ca (Dyane Bruce) writes: [...] I'd be quite willing to write in an ELF or COFF loader. Look at the way execve() works in NetBSD-current. It should be easier to plug in different executable formats, and with a little work alternate syscall tables. Thinking about Writing a WABI emulator makes me sick, [...] Someone claims he was running Windows Solitaire under NetBSD-current. I assume this requires some changes to Wine; I don't know if they've been incorporated into their code yet.