From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 10:42:09 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA01643 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 10:42:09 -0700 Received: from alpha.enc.edu (alpha.enc.edu [199.93.252.250]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA01637 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 10:42:07 -0700 Received: by alpha.enc.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03 rev 11/30/94) id AA16083; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:40:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:40:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles N. Owens" To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iBCS SCO status, Locus Merge In-Reply-To: <9508011700.AA02096@cs.weber.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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. Oh...oops. Pardon my ignorance. Is there something in the man pages about it... or somewhere in the source tree perhaps? > > 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. Bummer... Thanks for the info! --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------