[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/2/2024 2:25 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> And, in spite of the fact that it was supposed to be implementing a well-
>> documented API, with plenty of example source code to refer to, they 
>> still
>> couldn’t get WSL1 to work right. So they had to chuck it away and 
>> bring in
>> a proper Linux kernel instead.
> 
> I didn't do anything other than "play" with WSL1, but I thought 
> performance was the issue.
> 
> I think I did more with MKS Toolkit and Cygwin than WSL.

Note that Cygwin and WSL does completely different things.

Cygwin:

*nix and/or Windows source--Cygwin toolchain-->Windows executable

WSL:

*nix source--Linux toolchain-->Linux executable

Arne