From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 23 12:37:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA29397 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29368; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:36:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA16362; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:25:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608231925.MAA16362@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Dumb question about SCO compat To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:25:37 -0700 (MST) Cc: green@arf.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608231808.MAA07705@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 23, 96 12:08:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Quite awhile back I heard someone mention that at one point > > they had a large subset of SCO running under the SCO (ibcs2) compat on > > a FreeBSD system. I also believe that he was using the shared libs > > scarfed off of a SCO system. (Finally to the question!) How possible > > is that now if I were to order the SCO Free* OpenServer and used those > > libs? > > It may have been Terry, but I've had some significant SCO applications > running under emulation. I had to use SCO shlibs initially, but since > it required SCO licenses for every application it made no sense, so I > versions of the commercial software used which didn't use SCO shlibs. It was SEF and his apartmentmate. Sean was running the full developement system under a FreeBSD kernel at one time. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.