From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 1 00:14:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA07231 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 00:14:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from citytel1.citytel.net (root@citytel1.citytel.net [204.244.99.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA07225 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 00:14:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from mybsd.net (citytelprct48.citytel.net [204.244.99.124]) by citytel1.citytel.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA06036; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 00:23:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 23:44:21 -0800 (PST) From: Kwoody X-Sender: kwoody@mybsd.net To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD225 and BSDOS2.1/BSDOS3.0 In-Reply-To: <19971101103817.20943@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Ok, I give... maybe someone can clue me in to what the real issues are? > > IE - what is it about BSDOS2.1 and BSDOS3.0 that are different enough > > that FreeBSD can use or not use programs written for one or the other? > > Clarification or a history lesson please! :) Thanks!!!!! > > BSD/OS 3.0 supports ELF formats. Programs for 3.0 could thus be in > ELF, and we don't support it yet. 2.1 programs are in the same a.out > format as FreeBSD. 3.0 still supports a.out, so it's quite possible > that you can run 3.0 programs on FreeBSD, but you can't count on it. Is BSD/OS 2.1/3.0 based on the same sources that FreeBSD is based upon? I had access to a BSDI 2.1 server for a few months and man was it fast! (its being used for other purposes now, and in its place is AIX 3.2) It was during this time that I discovered the other *BSD os's and decided to convert one of my machines to FreeBSD, and I very glad I did. Its become my primary machine in fact. Keith.