From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jan 16 11:31:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA08525 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:31:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from intgate.myrias.ab.ca (root@intgate.Myrias.AB.CA [198.161.248.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA08520 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:31:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by intgate.myrias.ab.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA21859 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:30:52 -0700 Received: from slave.myrias.ab.ca(198.161.246.21) by intgate.myrias.ab.ca via smap (V2.0beta) id xma021853; Thu, 16 Jan 97 12:30:51 -0700 Received: from sparcbhl.myrias ([198.161.246.12]) by slave.Myrias.AB.CA with SMTP id <1059>; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:30:37 -0700 Received: by sparcbhl.myrias (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA29687; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:30:28 -0700 To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emulation of HP-UX or A*X? References: <199701161250.XAA14794@nemeton.com.au> From: Jean-Henri Duteau Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:30:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: "Sean J. Schluntz"'s message of Thu, 16 Jan 1997 03:16:31 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 44 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.33 Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Sean J. Schluntz" 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.