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And I won't be satisfied until Emacs can run Windows 95 binaries [1], but I'm not sure that it's either on Microsoft or on Richard Stallman to make this happen.
by vkou 4y ago
And I won't be satisfied until Emacs can run Windows 95 binaries [1], but I'm not sure that it's either on Microsoft or on Richard Stallman to make this happen.
There is no shortage of open protocols that you can use to communicate with all your friends. I don't see that you should be able to compel application vendors, that all build on top of open protocols into any interop they don't want.
[1] Emacs is, after all, an operating system with ambitions of being a text editor.
- pmontra 4y agoIf the problem to solve is piping an emacs buffer to a Windows 95 text mode binary and replacing the buffer with the text output, the solution could be 1. Run Windows 95 in an emulator, maybe a webassembly one. 2. Generate the mouse clicks and keyboard events to run that program, probably in a full screen DOS window. It must be in the %PATH% 3. In the same way type in the buffer in the input of the program. 4. OCR the output. 5. Replace the content of the buffer. I think it is feasible. Step 1 is for example https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95 https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95 I wouldn't be surprised that steps 2 to 4 are already implemented in some form. Step 5 should be trivial.