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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
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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.