3 Jul
2016
3 Jul
'16
7:33 p.m.
On 2 July 2016 at 21:18, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
EMX was the massive undertaking by Eberhard Mattes (then at Stuttgart) to
port UNIX stuff to DOS and then OS/2. Besides gcc, he also ported (La)TeX,
called emtex. emacs, and a bunch of GNU stuff. Except for the file system
restrictions, one could have first-order approximation to UNIX; later OS/2 file
systems had the option of case-sensitivity and an actual OS, hence a
second-order approximation. I wrote a lot of stuff at home for compilation on
the dep't Sun. (By the way, a reasonable OS/2 history may be found here:
http://www.os2museum.com)
Now my two favourite desk boxes are a G5 and an SB2500.
N.
On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Nemo wrote:
[...]
The MKS
Toolkit for OS/2 along with gcc+emx gave a second-order
approximation. (And Warp Connect had 'Net tools, even remote logins
with the former.)
N.
EMX is either the DJGPP/MinGW or the Cygwin of the OS/2 world, right?