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  • Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively

    From Ben Collver@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 26 14:37:35 2022
    "What Ormandy has managed to do is to build a tool to convert this
    ancient COFF-format object file into Linux's ELF format. He has
    called the tool coffsyrup. The result is 1-2-3 for Unix, linked to
    glibc...

    In other words, the original 1990 Lotus 1-2-3 for x86 Unix, running on
    modern x86 Linux, without emulation..."

    https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to Ben Collver on Thu May 26 19:03:14 2022
    On 2022-05-26, Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
    "What Ormandy has managed to do is to build a tool to convert this
    ancient COFF-format object file into Linux's ELF format. He has
    called the tool coffsyrup. The result is 1-2-3 for Unix, linked to
    glibc...

    In other words, the original 1990 Lotus 1-2-3 for x86 Unix, running on
    modern x86 Linux, without emulation..."

    https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html

    Great article, and a well-told narrative. He did some serious reverse engineering to make it happen - the technical prowess is really
    impressive.

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