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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by naniwaduni on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:51PM (#32475894)
I'd assume not without violating causality?
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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by pxc on Monday August 15, 2022 @06:25PM (#32476273)
I took the question to be whether having something like that available, at the time, would have solved any of their problems with distributing Google Earth for Linux
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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by actuallyalys on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:22PM (#32477588)
I don't think Cosmopolitan as it currently exists would do it because the difficulty in making graphics cross-platform [0]. Maybe Cosmopolitan circa 2032?

[0]: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/35#issuecomment-....

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