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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