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Date:      Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:09:01 +0100 (BST)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk>
To:        owensc@alpha.enc.edu (Charles N. Owens)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: iBCS SCO status, Locus Merge
Message-ID:  <199508011309.OAA04364@server.netcraft.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.950731161827.23644I-100000@alpha.enc.edu> from "Charles N. Owens" at Jul 31, 95 04:26:43 pm

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In reply to Charles N. Owens who said
> 
> Hi,
> 	I realize that the iBCS stuff isn't scheduled for inclusion in 
> the regular releases, but I was wondering if there's any way I could get 
> the current code to play with??
> 	Does anyone have any idea of whether or not it would run 
> something as complex as Locus's "merge" product?  This is what SCO uses 
> to execute DOS & Windows apps from its OS.
> 	I'm trying to put together a Unix served X-Station lab, and I'd 
> really like to use FreeBSD on ALL of the servers, but I NEED support for 
> DOS & Windows.  

Hmm, interesting idea of shortcutting our path to DOS support but I bet it
needs a vm86 call :-(

Anyway, anyone got any experience with running commercial databases under
FreeBSD. Someone here wants to run a database and is willing to buy
a commercial product so I'm trying to find out if anyone's got any reports
of using anything succesffully.

-- 
  Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. 
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul
  Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)



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