Re:Run Linux Programs on DOS
by em-bee on Sunday April 23, 2023 @06:30PM
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for some reason this title reminded me of my first "encounter" with UNIX.
i believe it was the first issue of the german computer magazine IX. it praised the benefits of UNIX over other systems and somehow that got me hooked. i didn't have access to a UNIX system but i was searching for it. next i got a book from O'Reilly called "Dos meets UNIX". my first O'Reilly book. it sounded like what i needed, since DOS is what i had, and UNIX is what i wanted. i don't remember what i did with that, but i believe the book pointed to some utilities that emulated UNIX commands in a DOS environment.
i finally got access to a real UNIX system at university (SUN and AIX) and then soon came Linux, which i installed dualboot, and with every upgrade/reinstall the DOS partition shrank and the Linux partition grew, and the rest is history.
i believe it was the first issue of the german computer magazine IX. it praised the benefits of UNIX over other systems and somehow that got me hooked. i didn't have access to a UNIX system but i was searching for it. next i got a book from O'Reilly called "Dos meets UNIX". my first O'Reilly book. it sounded like what i needed, since DOS is what i had, and UNIX is what i wanted. i don't remember what i did with that, but i believe the book pointed to some utilities that emulated UNIX commands in a DOS environment.
i finally got access to a real UNIX system at university (SUN and AIX) and then soon came Linux, which i installed dualboot, and with every upgrade/reinstall the DOS partition shrank and the Linux partition grew, and the rest is history.