From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 10:07:17 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA00958 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 10:07:17 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA00952 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 10:07:14 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA02096; Tue, 1 Aug 95 11:00:05 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508011700.AA02096@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: iBCS SCO status, Locus Merge To: owensc@alpha.enc.edu (Charles N. Owens) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 11:00:04 MDT Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Charles N. Owens" at Jul 31, 95 04:26:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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?? It *is* part of the release stuff. > 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. No, it would not. Merge has kernel level support for the console driver and for VM86() (virtual machine) support. > 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. Currently, PCEMU and WINE both run, though neither are up to the merge/softwindows level. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.