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From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Subject: Re: Are there any SUN binary emulators for FreeBSD?
Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands 
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 23:14:09 GMT
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:

>craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> I need to run Adobe Acrobat on my system.  Unfortunately, Adobe doesn't see 
>> fit to support FreeBSD (or BSDI).  Short of buying a SPARC, is there any way 
>> to run SUN/OS binaries on FreeBSD?

>Are these SPARC or x86 binaries?

>If SPARC, if you can point me at a SPARC CPU emulator somewhere,
>I could see what it would take for ABI emulation.


>                                        Terry Lambert

Get xpdf from an ftp site near you. Works fine to view Acrobat files on
X displays.

Wilko