From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jan 16 11:53:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA09621 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from dns.pinpt.com (dns.pinpt.com [205.179.195.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA09616 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:53:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from journeyman (gatemaster.pinpt.com [205.179.195.65]) by dns.pinpt.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA25880; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:52:52 -0800 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 11:51:56 Pacific Standard Time From: "Sean J. Schluntz" Subject: Re: Emulation of HP-UX or A*X? To: "Stephen F. Combs" Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, Giles Lean X-Mailer: Chameleon ATX 6.0, Standards Based IntraNet Solutions, NetManage Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk wrote: > HP-UX is SystemVRel2 based (with HP-isms added), AIX is IBM's attempt to > 'Big Blue' a unix, AUX is Apple's "Unix", and SunOS (up thru 4.1.4) is > BSD with Sunisms. The reason I began using FreeBSD was to have the SAME > basic working environment on my PC as I had on my SPARC. If you want > HARDWARE Emulation it'd be easier AND cheaper to just buy the > appropriate workstation and go from there. If you want S/W emulation, > I'd forget HP-U/X, AIX, and AUX (my personal opinion, after working with > ALL of them!) and just go with SunOS. You already got it! > Can't run Sun binaries, but you CAN compile source and have it work > (usually 'Fresh Out of the BOX'). Hmm, so if I were to be able to talk a commercial app builder who had an app for SunOS to do the compile on a FBSD computer odds are that it might work? That is an idea... -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz 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 11:51:56 ----------------------------------------------------------------------