From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed May 13 03:34:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA00215 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 03:34:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk ([212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA00205 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 03:34:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02406; Wed, 13 May 1998 12:33:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199805131033.MAA02406@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: How to run SCO Merge on FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: <199805130734.AAA02134@antipodes.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "May 13, 98 00:34:32 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:33:46 +0200 (CEST) Cc: sbabkin@dcn.att.com, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message