From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 15:26:57 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA08084 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail001.mediacity.com (mail001.mediacity.com [206.24.105.68]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA08078 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:26:55 -0800 (PST) From: brian@mediacity.com Received: (qmail-queue invoked from smtpd); 18 Dec 1996 23:26:43 -0000 Received: from home001.mediacity.com (HELO mediacity.com) (qmailr@206.24.105.66) by mail001.mediacity.com with SMTP; 18 Dec 1996 23:26:43 -0000 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 100); 18 Dec 1996 23:25:56 -0000 Message-ID: <19961218232556.22246.qmail@mediacity.com> Subject: FreeBSD beats SCO at its own game To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:25:56 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: brian@mediacity.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [SEMI LONG] Long ago I posted to this list asking about the likelyhood of running the dataflex accouting system available for SCO under SCO emulation via FreeBSD. Many thought it would work. I got the dataflex SCO version installed it and it tended to core dump. The company I worked for became impatient and went out and bought a whole SCO system. Well, guess what? the same software core dumped in the same places on the SCO system. But it was too late. Things proceeded on the SCO system. Some months later, as the company was commited to the accounting system, a new feature of the dataflex software was PANICing/crashing (just unexpectedly rebooted) the system during the run of an important feature. I eventually determined the problem was indeed an SCO operating system bug, which of course, there is nothing we could do about it. So, I suggested we again try running under FreeBSD via SCO emulation. Since at their time there was no other solution. Well, we had some initial config problems, but now it is up and running great. The OS bug in SCO does not manifest itself in the FreeBSD SCO emulation, and the staff are all wondering around the company declaring how much faster the accouting system is under FreeBSD (regularly people report 5 to 10 times faster). (same hardware) So kudo's to the FreeBSD developers. -- Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD http[s]://www.mpress.com