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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 7 Apr 1994 13:13:34 +0200
Organization: Private U**X site; member IN e.V.
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References: <1994Mar18.084355.19503@atlas.com> <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2mmlhpINNc3s@bonnie.sax.de> <Cn3uq0.M15@tower.nullnet.fi> <michaelv.764484670@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <2n9f90$9em@great-miami.iac.net> <CnInLE.Fo4@hippo.ru.ac.za>
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csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
>skyhook@iac.net (Chris Thompson) writes:
>>is there iBCS2 support? (In ALPHA for Linux, run SCO binaries)
>An MSDOS emulator for *BSD is under development. WINE is the same across
>Linux and *BSD. As far as iBCS2 binary compatibility goes - I'm sure that
>if someone were interested in developing that there would be interest ;-)
Well, the illusion of binary compatibility is one of the biggest
fairy-tales in the U**x history. Programs can (and should be)
compatible at the C source level. This is what C has been made
for.
From a friend using some SVR4, running a SCO version of WordPerfect
there: he lost his edited text since WP attempted to store it to
an inode > 65535:-(, since SCO knows only of 16 bits of inode numbers.
iBCS2 in practice. 99 % compatible is incompatible.
--
cheers, J"org work: joerg_wunsch@tcd-dresden.de
private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de
Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming:
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.