On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Jourge Fuzz Bush wrote:
>One thing. This is offtopic but just a curious question.
>Shouldn't I be able to take a stand-alone exe file from win 95 and run
>it in linux. What the difference. They're both compiled asember. I think
>it should work as long as their is no system calls. Just something to
>think about.
Memory allocation is a system call.
(And that's just one example, there's many many more.)
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