Re: linux on nt.

B. James Phillippe (bryan@Terran.ORG)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:12:53 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> > i came across a press release that a company (Softway) will be developing a
> > unix process for windows nt.
>
> Someone did this quite a while ago. In theory you could host Linux on top
> of NT. Beats me why you'd want to slow Linux down so much however. I've also
> no idea how you would persuade our dear friend Bill to give you enough API
> info to do it

Anyone consider the feasability of running NT as a Linux process?
Assuming this wasn't sick and insane and there was adequate documentation,
would there be a (unavoidable) technical limitation?

-bp

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