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> I know we have at least one Solaris x86 user/developer in here (Jake?)
> and I'd like to know what kind of hurdles binary solaris-x86 emulation
> is likely to run into ?
> 
> I am asking this as I am forced to support Notes internally for users,
> and I'm wishfully thinking to terminate the NTs here.

We already have the ELF binary support.  The hardest part will be adding
all the syscall support for the SVR4 API, and providing the appropriate
shared libraries.  I suggest you look at Linux's IBCS2 emulator, which
supports Solaris/x86, SCO, and XENIX reasonably well. 

-- Jake