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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VM for Windows/Linux?
From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:19:17 -0500
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>> As for a C compiler generating Dis, I believe that Dis
>  > cannot express all the things that one can do in C.
>
> It could be done, by mapping all C objects into a single
> large Dis object and all code into a single module, for
> example, also providing hooks to get at some of the non-C
> features.  But why?

The original thread was 'what if instead of drawterm there was a
Dis-style VM and there was a C compiler for Dis so that you can
run Plan9 term under other OS, without VMware'.