From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 23 13:51:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13FC106566C for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@mittelstaedt.us) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (unknown [IPv6:2607:fa80:40::6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78AE08FC15 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:51:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2607:fa80:101:100:21d:6aff:fe2a:7a11] ([IPv6:2607:fa80:101:100:21d:6aff:fe2a:7a11]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6NDop5s074677 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 06:51:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@mittelstaedt.us) Message-ID: <4E2AD1BC.2040002@mittelstaedt.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 06:50:52 -0700 From: Ted Mittelstaedt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org References: <201107221631.p6MGVqtT038587@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <201107221631.p6MGVqtT038587@fire.js.berklix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=4.5 tests=HELO_NO_DOMAIN,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com Subject: Re: IBCS2 regression in FreeBSD 5?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:51:06 -0000 While I will be among the first to say that FreeBSD is often used in this capacity (serving as a base for a commercial product), it would be - in my opinion - a far better use of money to pay a developer to write a FreeBSD application that would run on FreeBSD 8 and duplicate whatever functionality that this antique SCO program is doing. FreeNSD 4.X runs great under VirtualBox and that is probably what the OP should be doing. I also happen to have a FreeBSD 8 system that has a VirtualBox session running FreeBSD 4 that an older program is running in. Ted On 7/22/2011 9:31 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi Rich Naill > cc freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org > , > Reference: >> From: "Rich Naill" >> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:53:21 -0400 >> Message-id: <62358EEA788F4379AD461DBC5D721039@COMPAQGR> > > "Rich Naill" wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We have been using FREEBSD 4.x now 4.11 for several years. >> >> Running old Altos binaries with ibcs2 emulation. >> >> Starting with BSD 5.x thur 8.x the binarys will not run anymore using ibcs2. >> >> See problem report 156353 >> >> Also references to ibcs2 regression in FreeBSD 5 >> >> We would very much like to get this corrected $$$ > ............................................... ^^^ > > If '$$$' is an indication your company wants to pay a FreeBSD person > at commercial rates to solve its's problem, > here's a world wide geographic indexed list of FreeBSD consultants: > http://berklix.com/consultants/ > & please cc freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org as some on list would probably > be interested. > > >> Any help would be great >> >> Rich Naill >> >> Enterprise Systems Inc >> 616-243-9883 >> rich@enterprisesystems.net > > Cheers, > Julian