Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game

Re:Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game by rbanffy on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @04:31PM (#1695743)

Windows NT was designed to have "multiple personalities". It has a Win32 personality most Windows programs see, a POSIX personality (that I think doesn't exist anymore) and an OS/2 personality (that I never saw). Each one could run binaries designed for the respective environment. Few Windows programs ever touch the NT kernel.

OSX is also modeled like this. There is a Mach kernel and a BSD-like personality on top of it.

Wine allows Win32 software to run on top of Unix without ever realizing they are running on top of a "fake" Win32 stack.

I think GNUStep could be used to build something similar that could allow OSX software to run on non-OSX hosts.

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Re:Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game by outofband on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @08:07PM (#1696332)

the posix personality still exists - it's called SUA; the Subsystem for UNIX Applications. the guys at interop systems have made a really nice ports-esque system for it so it's easy to get up and running with the usual pile of apps.

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Re:Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game by jf on Thursday September 16, 2010 @01:47AM (#1696915)

Do you have more details on this? I looked around for a while and ended up installing cygwin...

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