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Date:      14 May 1998 16:04:54 +0900
From:      HAMADA Naoki <hamada@astec.co.jp>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        sbabkin@dcn.att.com, mike@smith.net.au, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to run SCO Merge on FreeBSD ?
Message-ID:  <ixogx1s57t.fsf@astec.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: Sxren Schmidt's message of Wed, 13 May 1998 12:33:46 %2B0200 (CEST)
References:  <199805131033.MAA02406@sos.freebsd.dk>

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Sxren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
> > This is an issue for -emulation.  It should be there (moved).
> > 
> > > Yesterday I looked at SCO website and found that they are licensing
> > > Merge (DOS, Win 3.1 and Win95 emulator) for personal and non-commercial
> > > usage for free. I have a question now: how much efforts will
> > > be approximately be needed to run it on FreeBSD ?
> > 
> > No idea.  At a guess, it would require providing a conformal interface 
> > for their i386 LDT manipulation functions, and probably also FP and 
> > signal handling.  For someone familiar with SCO's architecture, this 
> > would probably be pretty straightforward.
> 
> Ugh, I dont think so, it needs a SCO comaptaible vm86 interface as
> well, that might turn out to be quite a challenge...

And what is worse, you need to figure out the interface of virtual
devices (vga, mouse, etc.), which is completely undocumented.

- nao

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