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A POSIX compatibility layer should be enough. You can easily run UNIX programs on Windows using Cygwin, for example.
by GeneralMaximus 17y ago
A POSIX compatibility layer should be enough. You can easily run UNIX programs on Windows using Cygwin, for example.
- jodrellblank 17y agoWhat you want is a new and innovative OS that is also backwards/cross compatible and standards compliant?
- eru 17y agoWhat's the problem? The standards compliant layer would perhaps just not be as fast as the native metaphors.
- steveklabnik 17y agoYou'd be surprised at what's possible. I'm actually working on one right now.
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoHaiku actually does this. Haiku is not a UNIX, but there's a fairly complete POSIX layer for building UNIX programs. As far as I know, Syllable and SkyOS do something like this, too (I might be wrong, though).