Howard Chu @ Symas on Nostr: Back in college with my Atari ST, I sometimes envied the PC world with its plethora ...

Back in college with my Atari ST, I sometimes envied the PC world with its plethora of apps. Delving deeper into Free Software ameliorated some of that; it's why I became a gcc & binutils maintainer, so I could build other people's code and run it on my ST. For proprietary stuff I wrote my own 8086 to 68000 binary translator, turning MS-DOS apps into GEMDOS apps. At no point along the way did I ever settle for the sluggish performance of an interpreter or emulator.