From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 29 3:56:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2225614C44 for ; Sat, 29 May 1999 03:56:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@scc.nl) Received: from scones.sup.scc.nl (p407.asi.euronet.nl [194.134.124.7]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05160 from for ; Sat, 29 May 1999 12:56:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA55222 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 29 May 1999 11:49:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by scones.sup.scc.nl with netnews for stable@FreeBSD.ORG (stable@FreeBSD.ORG) To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 11:49:09 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <374FB815.693457FE@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <19990529000910.BDDC615175@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How good is SCO emulation? Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stan Brown wrote: > > WE have a system installed by a vendor that runs on SCO OpenServer. [snip] > So here is the question, is it reasonable to consider runing the > vendors app unmodified under FreeBSD? You didn't actually told use what the system/app is, but numerous SCO applications work under iBCS2 emulation. The fact that networking is not needed, can be a plus. If you have the resources, try it out. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message