Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:30:25 -0700 From: Jean-Henri Duteau <jeand@Myrias.COM> To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emulation of HP-UX or A*X? Message-ID: <xktvi8xo1ta.fsf@sparcbhl.Myrias.AB.CA> In-Reply-To: "Sean J. Schluntz"'s message of Thu, 16 Jan 1997 03:16:31 -0700 References: <199701161250.XAA14794@nemeton.com.au> <Chameleon.853438720.List@journeyman>
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"Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> writes: > > > > > Does FreeBSD have emulation for HP-UX, AIX, AUX or SunOS. > > > > None of these run on x86 platforms. Emulation in that case involves > > emulation of a different processor, which is slow and which the > > current emulator doesn't attempt to provide support for. > > > > NetBSD is able to emulate some of these on appropriate hardware > > (i.e. where the processor matches!). > > Well, I know that IBM makes AIX (Or AUX, Apple Makes the other.) Oh well, > which ever IBM makes is compatible with the x86 platform. You can even get it> on some of the Notebooks (PPC and x86). Do you know what type of Unix this > is? And how hard would it be to emulate that one. > IBM makes AIX and they do run on x86 notebooks. I know nothing of AUX, so I refuse to comment on it. 8-) HPUX and AIX are types of UNIX in themselves. Both are distinctly related to SysV stuff but have so many vendor changes in them that emulating them would just be a huge hack. My company's product is ported to Solaris, SunOS, HPUX, and AIX. I admin all the machines and we have at least 3 of each type of UNIX running. HPUX, in my opinion, gives unix a bad name. I think there is a secret room in HP headquarters where 12 people gather around a conference table. In this room, they come up with a way to make HPUX incompatible with all other unices. For instance, how would you remotely run a command on another machine. If you answered RSH, you lose. It's REMSH on HPUX. Yuck!!! Anyways, not much content here other than to say that I don't think emulating any of these unices is feasible since they contain so many vendor-specific changes. As well, why would we?? -- Jean-Henri Duteau jeand@myrias.com (work) jeand@west-teq.net (home) My employer: Myrias Computer Technologies (www.myrias.com) Currently working on RHSS - a realistic hockey simulator system covered by GPL. Fantasy Sports Guru -- Commissioner--RHL,RHHL,LFHL,CFFL.Owner--FHL,FFL,RCFFL I run FreeBSD2.1.5 at home and am striving for a totally Free Operating System.
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