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To: Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com>
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Subject: Re: em86
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Mark Abene writes:
 > While we're on the subject of emulation, is anyone interested in starting
 > an effort to port alphalinux's em86 to freebsd/alpha?  Methinks the ability
 > to run linux/x86 apps on our machines would be a boon.
 > 
 > Comments?
 > -Mark

I've tried running em86 under emulation and saw a problem with the
linux dynamic loader.  I then tried it on my linux/alpha test box &
got the same error.

Now that we can run realplayer, acrobat, netscape, etc, my motivation
for getting em86 working has decreased remarkebly..

Drew


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