From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 18 11:23:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF88E15510 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:23:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA25236; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 05:52:55 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991118142221.47660@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:22:21 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathon McKitrick , Joss Roots Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Other OSs-Compatibility Layer Test Algorithm Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <19991118190825.8067.rocketmail@web115.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathon McKitrick on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:16:32PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 18 November 1999 at 19:16:32 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > >>> It can run SunOS 5 (Solaris) on Intel (ELF), >>> NetBSD and SCO (COFF) >>> executables. > > Why the distinction between SunOS on Intel and the others? Does that mean > NetBSD and SCO emulation can run on other processors? I don't know of any emulations which emulate a different instruction set, so there's a further restriction: as far as I know, *all* of the emulations run on Intel only, and they emulate Intel coe for the other operating system. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message