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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Windows Notepad to support Unix line endings
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 15:54:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180509225433.GA31783@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4161f58-e8d6-4800-4195-f51344123e3f@kilonet.net>

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 06:30:47PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> How long before they take the Windows GUI and video drivers and slap it on
> top of Linux for a test spin? (if they haven't already)

I've actually wanted this for decades.  The Windows programming environment
leaves a lot to be desired.  And nobody, except app writers, cares about
the kernel, it could be linux and so long as they had backwards compat
Windows APIs everyone would be happy.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-09 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-09 20:15 Robert Diamond
2018-05-09 21:54 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09 21:57   ` David Arnold
2018-05-09 22:23     ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09 23:08       ` Nemo
2018-05-09 23:10         ` Nemo
2018-05-09 23:28         ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-10 13:34           ` Nemo
2018-05-10 15:24             ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-11  2:16       ` David Arnold
2018-05-11  2:21         ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09 22:30   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-09 22:54     ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2018-05-10 21:09     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-10 21:21       ` arnold
2018-05-10 21:47       ` Harald Arnesen
2018-05-10 21:49       ` Clem Cole
2018-05-10 22:59         ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-11  0:35           ` Warner Losh
2018-05-11  1:29           ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-11 13:09             ` Clem Cole
2018-05-10 23:13         ` Wesley Parish
2018-05-09 22:41   ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-05-10  0:32 Norman Wilson
2018-05-10  1:10 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-12 11:51 Rudi Blom

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