From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed May 13 01:38:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA12370 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 01:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com ([210.145.37.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA12364 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 01:38:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA02134; Wed, 13 May 1998 00:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805130734.AAA02134@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to run SCO Merge on FreeBSD ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 13:41:53 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 00:34:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is an issue for -emulation. It should be there (moved). > Yesterday I looked at SCO website and found that they are licensing > Merge (DOS, Win 3.1 and Win95 emulator) for personal and non-commercial > usage for free. I have a question now: how much efforts will > be approximately be needed to run it on FreeBSD ? No idea. At a guess, it would require providing a conformal interface for their i386 LDT manipulation functions, and probably also FP and signal handling. For someone familiar with SCO's architecture, this would probably be pretty straightforward. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message