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OPENNT: UNIX Application Portability to Windows NT Stephen R. Walli Softway Systems Inc. stephe@ The Problem Walli抯 First Law of Applications Portability: Every useful application outlives the platform on which it was originally developed and deployed Application Migration Alternatives Complete re-write to Win32 UNIX emulation libraries Common portability library The Microsoft POSIX subsystem The OPENNT subsystem Windows NT Today ... Winsock TCP/IP POSIX.1 subsystem Windows NT kernel Hardware abstraction layer Windows NT command shell Windows NT commands, networking system admi