[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Dan Cross]

In article <un293n$2tfib$1 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>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

More like: "cygwin executes Windows executables that are built
from Unix-y sources using compatibility libraries, while WSL1
executes Linux-branded ELF binaries using a compatibility layer
in the Windows kernel."  Toolchains are only tangentially
relevant.

	- Dan C.