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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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