On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Jourge Fuzz Bush wrote: >One thing. This is offtopic but just a curious question. >Shouldn't I be able to take a stand-alone exe file from win 95 and run >it in linux. What the difference. They're both compiled asember. I think >it should work as long as their is no system calls. Just something to >think about. Memory allocation is a system call. (And that's just one example, there's many many more.) -- George Greer, greerga@circlemud.org | Genius may have its limitations, but http://mouse.van.ml.org/ (mostly) | stupidity is not thus handicapped. http://www.van.ml.org/CircleMUD/ | -- Elbert Hubbard +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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