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bitwizelast Monday at 2:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

So you want CPU emul and a kernel personality. Kind of a tall ask, especially since you'll need much of Solaris anyway to run those vintage binaries.


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anthklast Monday at 10:07 PM

See this: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/Apout

X11 calls can be just forwarded to the currently running server in your machine. The rest, yes, it must be implemented.

PD: I'm not saying IE for Unix would run under that; Solaris it's pretty much post BSD 2.1 and maybe from another Unix branch.

But code from NetBSD could be adapted for such task.

yjftsjthsd-hyesterday at 5:52 PM

We have:

* illumos

* binfmt (Assuming a Linux host)

* qemu

I'm not saying it's zero work, but this looks entirely solvable.