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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:13:05 +0700 (JAVT)
From:      Sukotjo Bambang <bambang@itenas.ac.id>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compatibility
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002150712040.14239-100000@mail.itenas.ac.id>
In-Reply-To: <20000213215152.P17536@fw.wintelcom.net>

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Sorry,
I forgot to tell you sophis URL. This is it :

http://www.sophis.be

Regards,


Sukotjo S. Bambang

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Sukotjo Bambang <bambang@itenas.ac.id> [000213 21:38] wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 
> > > * Sukotjo Bambang <bambang@itenas.ac.id> [000211 18:51] wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Dear sir,
> > > > I have a problem with HP/UX and now I looking for a posibility to change
> > > > my HP/UX with freebsd. I need some sugestion from you about HP/UX and
> > > > FreeBSD compatibility.
> > > 
> > > Can you list some of the compatibility you need?  FreeBSD can not
> > > run HPUX binaries, but many programs that run on HPUX can be compiled
> > > on FreeBSD.  I'd probably be correct in guessing that the amount
> > > of programs that can be compiled without problems under FreeBSD is
> > > much greater than under HPUX because of the ports system.
> > > 
> > > see: http://www.freebsd.org/ports
> > > 
> > 
> > I planned to change my O/S from HPUX to freeBSD. Now, I have an
> > application by Sophis. That S/W used for graphic design.
> 
> Well you didn't supply a URL to this company 'Sophis' so I looked
> them up at http://Sophis.com/, but wasn't able to find any information
> about what archetectures they provide thier software for.  The english
> site it really poor on content and the .be site seems to be down.
> 
> You need an Intel or Alpha machine to run FreeBSD, as far as I know
> HPUX only runs on PA-RISC.  This means you can't run HPUX programs
> because we don't have a PA-RISC/HPUX emulator.
> 
> You'll have to ask your software vendors if they provide FreeBSD,
> SCO or Linux versions. (FreeBSD can run Linux and SCO programs)
> 
> You do realize you need a PC or alpha for FreeBSD right?
> 
> good luck,
> -Alfred
> 
> 



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