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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!tcsi.sol.net!ktw Subject: Re: BSD SunOS binary compatability Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps References: <ktw.14a5@tcsi.sol.net> <3fjtbi$pop@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <3fk5q8$41a@er5.rutgers.edu> Distribution: world X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL3] From: ktw@tcsi.sol.net (K.T. Wieringa) Message-ID: <ktw.14xt@tcsi.sol.net> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 95 16:29:58 CST Organization: A Demon of the Second Kind Lines: 22 Ken Nakata (kenn@eden.rutgers.edu) wrote: : mwilley@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey) writes: : >K.T. Wieringa (ktw@tcsi.sol.net) wrote: : >: Just how compatible is BSD with SunOS binaries with the COMPAT_SUNOS : >: kernel flag? : >I think that only applies to the actual Sun hardware port of NetBSD. Unless the '386 version supports running : >Solarisx86 binaries. : I think COMPAT_SUNOS is supported by most (if not all) m68k ports, : such as Mac68k. : Anyway, that doesn't allow you to run Sun3/4 binary on an i386. I have NetBSD running here on m68k (Amiga,'030), as well as on i386 (486dx2). Thanks for the help. I'm still not convinced to the point of spending a thousand dollars for the software on the chance it might work. I'll look around locally for some SunOS binaries and try to do some testing.