[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:13:44 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 4/24/2024 6:15 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:52:36 +1200, David Goodwin wrote:
>>>
>>> The difference here is that Windows NT isn't limited to a single
>>> userspace API/personality, historically it provided three (Win32, OS/2
>>> and POSIX) in addition to its own Native API.
>> 
>> That’s the theory. In practice, it doesn’t seem to have worked very
>> well. The POSIX “personality” for example, was essentially unusable.
> 
> My impression is that it worked fine.

You got to be kidding <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOeku3hDzrM>.

>> When the Windows engineers were working on WSL1, emulating Linux kernel
>> APIs on Windows, you would think they would have used this
>> “personality” system. But they did not.
> 
> Lowest common denonimator for Unix API's from the early 1990's was
> probably not interesting.

They couldn’t get it to work.