From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jan 16 12:44:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA12384 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:44:43 -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 MAA12377 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:44:41 -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 MAA26223; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:43:36 -0800 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 12:39:53 Pacific Standard Time From: "Sean J. Schluntz" Subject: Re: Emulation of HP-UX or A*X? To: Pedro Giffuni 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 > > 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. So our SVR4 might end up like the SCO emulation? Most of it works, but some specific programs require shared libs that are only in the 'real' package? That would not bother me, I can get a copy of Solaris at educational discount and copy the libs (Like I did for SCO, I don't like either much, but the ability to run their binaries now and then would be useful.) -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 12:39:54 ----------------------------------------------------------------------