Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 15:19:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dphillip@tabfs.com (Dale Phillips) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sco emulation Message-ID: <199602032219.PAA04522@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9602031243.aa13210@svr.tabfs.com> from "Dale Phillips" at Feb 3, 96 12:43:30 pm
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> A qusetion of what I need to do ... > > On the same machine is it possible to run one app that is a sco binary and > another app that is designed and built for BSDi - at the same time with data > transfer happening? > > What prompts this question - is the sco emulation an all or nothing type of > emulation ... like dos merge (bad parrallel -sorry) The answer is "yes, provisionally". It depends on how you are sharing data between the apps. I believe pipes and sockets will both work, shared memory depends on the packing and ordering and alignment from both machines on the dsata in the shared semnet, and SYSV IPC probably won't be happy (just a gut feeling, since no one is doing a lot of this). They'll definitely run dsimultaneously -- and Linux, and NetBSD and FreeBSD binaries, and DOS (under PCEMU) and Windoes (under Willows) and Mac (under Executor under Linux) and Commodore64 under the XC64, and... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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