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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10553 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5158 comp.unix.bsd:13103 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5879 biz.sco.general:9409 Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: SCO market share References: <2em4ds$n22@vanbc.wimsey.com> <2eocag$ce1@u.cc.utah.edu> <2eom4c$t2h@vanbc.wimsey.com> <2eqqq0$mns@u.cc.utah.edu> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 03:17:23 GMT Message-ID: <1993Dec17.031723.19536@kf8nh.wariat.org> Lines: 50 In article <2eqqq0$mns@u.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) says: +--------------- | In article <2eom4c$t2h@vanbc.wimsey.com> sl@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stuart Lynne) writes: | >I know *I* could install a PD Unix here and have lot's of fun. But I don't | >think it would be usable on our main machine. We'd have to get drivers for | >Digiboard and Adaptec 2742's. And DAT's, etc. Not too mention I'd have to | >recompile everything from scratch that we've worked on for the last five | >years under SCO. And implement a new set of sysadmin tools. And make sure | >it's secure. And of course once I'd done all that I'd be an netBSD sysadmin | >expert and I could probably make lot's of money locally doing that. Not! | | The Digiboard and Adaptec 2742 drivers might be a problem; if the Digiboard | is a "dumb" model, then it'll work -- the AHA2742 controllers will be a +--------------- I seem to remember Rick Richardson of Digiboard making a comment a few months back about future DigiBoard support for Linux. +--------------- | *BSD supports DAT drives. +--------------- If it's SCSI, Linux supports it (Stephen Savitsky was offering to put together a DAT-based Linux distribution a few days ago). I can't speak to non-SCSI versions; but then, SCO probably can't, either, unless the DAT drive vendor wrote a driver for it. (SCO cannot reasonably hope to keep up with the ludicrous number of different hardware implementations in the PC marketplace. Neither can anyone else, Linux and *BSD included.) +--------------- | *BSD supports "execution classes" in Alpha code, and there is a non- | distributable Xenix loader module (it'd have to be rewritten for you | to use it) that is about 1500 lines of code, so your recompilation | issues may be about to go away -- you'd just run your SCO binaries. +--------------- I just received a "release candidate" for the Linux COFF support from the iBSC2 development group. (DON'T ask me for a copy, it's still not publicly released. I'm willing to risk my hardware this weekend after I do my weekly full backup; are you?) Shared libraries are still in development. Statically linked binaries should work as is; I'll know after I rebuild my kernel this weekend. ++Brandon [Before anyone asks: I also do daily (nightly) incremental backups...] -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca Do not taunt Happy Fun Coder. (seen on the Net...)