Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:33:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: sbabkin@dcn.att.com, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to run SCO Merge on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <199805131033.MAA02406@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199805130734.AAA02134@antipodes.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "May 13, 98 00:34:32 am"
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In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
> This is an issue for -emulation. It should be there (moved).
>
> > Yesterday I looked at SCO website and found that they are licensing
> > Merge (DOS, Win 3.1 and Win95 emulator) for personal and non-commercial
> > usage for free. I have a question now: how much efforts will
> > be approximately be needed to run it on FreeBSD ?
>
> No idea. At a guess, it would require providing a conformal interface
> for their i386 LDT manipulation functions, and probably also FP and
> signal handling. For someone familiar with SCO's architecture, this
> would probably be pretty straightforward.
Ugh, I dont think so, it needs a SCO comaptaible vm86 interface as
well, that might turn out to be quite a challenge...
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