Back in 1993, OS/2 advocate Richard E. Hodges disagreed enough with a June 1993 Byte magazine article by John Udell "Windows, Windows Everywhere?" that he wrote a lengthy reply, and posted it widely; it was forwarded to comp.os.os2.misc, and said in part
--- snip --- To lure Independent Software Vendors, "Windows Everywhere" offers a kind of "magic dust" that will end their cross-platform support problems. Microsoft claims that Windows programs will run on any computer with nothing but a simple recompile. Windows programs will run under Unix through an emulator. "Wings" will let you recompile into a native Macintosh application. --- snip ---
Did Microsoft really talk up the idea of Unix being able to run Win32 apps via emulation on Unix, or was Hodges referring to things like Sun's WABI, which was announced in May '93? - Dan
p.s. the original message can be seen in two parts, May 31st or June 2 1993 (usenet was slow back then!), "A Letter to Byte Magazine", http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.os2.misc/msg/6180333e77f4a147 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.os2.misc/msg/e31a54eb9a3e1389
And the WABI announcement seems to be at http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.questions/msg/b4a8e8fc829b2ab7
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