Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:35:51 -0500 (EST) From: Pedro Giffuni <m230761@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co> To: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> Cc: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emulation of HP-UX or A*X? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970116142118.7966A-100000@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co> In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.853438720.List@journeyman>
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On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > > 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. > AIX is a strange POSIX brew between SYSV and BSD43. Most commercial UNIXs (SGI) are following that tendency. AIX, in particular, is very BSD-like and the new releases are microkernels (very slow). It seems like you're thinking in a "native emulation" like BSDI's. We know BSD/OS is mostly the same kernel but no one knows what IBM really made (it does use Berkeley software anyway). The problem here is that there are no real advantages in emulating AIX for PC; it's ugly, rarely used, and most apps already run under Linux and SCO emulation. An emulation that is being worked upon is SVR4 (Solaris) but it would be a miracle if their free CDE runs because we would need about a "bazillion" of their shared libs. Pedro. > -Sean > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sean J. Schluntz <schluntz@pinpt.com> > Manager, Support Services ph. 408.997.6900 x222 > PinPoint Software Corporation fx. 408.323.2300 > 6155 Almaden Expressway, Suite 100 > San Jose, CA. 95120 http://www.pinpt.com/ > > Local Time Sent: 01/16/97 10:16:31 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
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