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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VM for Windows/Linux?
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:10:49 -0500
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If a virtualisation of the hardware is what's wanted, then why
not go for Inferno ? (Aside from not being able to run your
C programs, but there are ways around that).

cheers,


On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 09:19  AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:

>>> 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'.
>