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From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
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Subject: FreeBSD and iBCS
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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 20:13:00 +0000
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* In message <3fkceq$8ee@delphi.cs.ucla.edu>, Scott Michel said:
SM> Yah, I know that Linux has an iBCS-2 emulator being tested in it, but
SM> there are some really good reasons to going to FreeBSD/BSD 4.4-Lite.
SM> Has anyone looked into running iBCS-2 programs (or emulating
SM> them)?
No. But having looked at BSD enough to have put basic support for BSD in the
Linux iBCS emulator I do know that it wouldn't be difficult to do really. I
always wondered why no one had actually done it long ago...
Mike