From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 06:09:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA23468 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 06:09:32 -0700 Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA23460 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 06:09:28 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA04364; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:09:02 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199508011309.OAA04364@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: iBCS SCO status, Locus Merge To: owensc@alpha.enc.edu (Charles N. Owens) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:09:01 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Charles N. Owens" at Jul 31, 95 04:26:43 pm Reply-to: paul@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1105 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)