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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2264 comp.os.linux.misc:12599 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!crcnis1.unl.edu!backbone!backbone!wayne From: wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 05:04:28 GMT Organization: The Backbone Cabal Lines: 38 Sender: wayne@backbone (Wayne Schlitt) Message-ID: <WAYNE.94Apr7230428@backbone.uucp> 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> <2o0psuINN3h5@bonnie.sax.de> Reply-To: wayne@cse.unl.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cse.unl.edu In-Reply-To: j@uriah.sax.de's message of 7 Apr 1994 13: 13:34 +0200 In article <2o0psuINN3h5@bonnie.sax.de> j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > 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) > > Well, the illusion of binary compatibility is one of the biggest > fairy-tales in the U**x history. > 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. Are you sure that this is what caused your friend to loose his data? Why would WP care about the inode, and if it did, then what do they expect SCO boxes with NFS mount file systems to do? _IF_ the inode range is what caused the problem, then WP has a bug. And, if you want to work around that bug, you can always create your SVR4 filesystems in compatibility mode. > iBCS2 in practice. 99 % compatible is incompatible. If you seriously believe this, then you would have to say that all PC's since the original PC are incompatible. In practice, 99% compatibility means that you can get a h*ll of a lot done. -wayne -- The Fundamental Problem with USENET is that you have at least a couple of hours, if not a day or so to think up that witty, absolutely devastating retort... The other Fundamental Problem is people don't even take a couple of minutes to think before they hit that send key...