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Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively

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From: bencoll...@tilde.pink (Ben Collver)
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Subject: Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 14:37:35 -0000 (UTC)
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by: Ben Collver - Thu, 26 May 2022 14:37 UTC

"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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Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 19:03:14 +0100
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by: Retrograde - Thu, 26 May 2022 18:03 UTC

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.

Subject	Author
Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively	Ben Collver
Re: Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively	Retrograde