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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!info.curtin.edu.au!cproto From: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Running SCO and MSDOS and MS Windows binaries Date: 26 Sep 93 12:44:51 GMT Organization: Curtin University of Technology Lines: 55 Message-ID: <cproto.749047491@marsh> NNTP-Posting-Host: marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au Summary: Running SCO and MSDOS and MS Windows binaries In article <1993Sep21.201546.11569@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: : : o Yes, I can run SCO Xenix 286 binaries (some ioctl()'s don't work). : o Yes, I can run SCO Xenix 386 binaries. : o Yes, I can run SCO UNIX, ISC UNIX, Microport, Cubix, and Altos : binaries for SVR3 derivitive UNIX. : o Yes, I can run *statically linked* SVR4 binaries. : o Yes, I can run *statically linked* Linux binaries. : o Yes, I have a real streams (some problems with priority banding) that : can run the Lachman TCP/IP code and the sample streams code in the : SVR4 docs. : o Yes, I have real shared libraries not derived from Sun code. : o Yes, I have a user space threads implementation which is source : compatable with Sun's LWP. : o Yes, my console is Unicode and can handle Japanese, Russian, Korean, : etc. with only data set changes. : o Yes, my filesystem is localizable so that you can rename well known : files like "/etc" or "/etc/passwd" to the non-English equivalents : and programs like "passwd" can still find them. : o Yes, my VM has been fixed to eliminate ETXTBSY and all the failure : cases therein (related to NFS, etc). : o Yes, I have a stackable attributed filesystem with data compression : built in on a per file block basis. : o Yes, I have install disks that don't care about translated drive : geometries and *just work* with DOS. : o Yes, I have a DOS FS that can mount extended partitions and doesn't : need changes to the disklabel to find DOS (it reads the partition : table). : o Yes, my serial ports work correctly with flow control. : : NO, I CAN NOT GIVE OUT CODE WITHOUT MY EMPLOYERS PERMISSION. : NO, MY EMPLOYER WOULD NOT LOOK KINDLY ON PEOPLE LOBBYING FOR PERMISSION. : NO, I DON'T KNOW WHEN OR IF PERMISSION WILL BE FORTHCOMING. : NO, I DON'T WANT A BUNCH OF MAIL ASKING ME TO "JUST SNEAK A COPY". : Terry Lambert : terry@icarus.weber.edu : --- : Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present : or previous employers. My system does ALL of the above plus you can run MS Windows 3.1 applications (including Word for Windows, Excel and friends) under X11 as well as DOS boxes. All this runs on a heavily hacked 386BSD-0.0. The CPU is a PENTIUM emulated in software on a INTEL 4004 running at 400 khz. But sorry you can't have it without my employers permission. :) :) :) :) :) :) Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au)