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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!hookup!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news1.oakland.edu!cs.utep.edu!rgfn.epcc.edu!ae558 From: ae558@rgfn.epcc.edu (Shawn V Fitzgerald) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and iBCS Message-ID: <1995Jan27.053857.19858@rgfn.epcc.edu> Organization: The Rio Grande Free-Net, El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <799.2F258119@purplet.demon.co.uk> <3g4ebu$ptn@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 05:38:57 GMT Lines: 14 Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: > In article <799.2F258119@purplet.demon.co.uk>, > Mike Jagdis <jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >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. > Do what, add iBCS2 support? We're already well under way with that, and > have in fact released early support with 2.0. It won't quite run Word > Perfect yet, but it's getting there. Yea, I use FreeBSD2.0 and load iBCS2 support to run some of my Coherent programs. I havent put the thing to the wall but it looks as if it can handle the load. I'm sure my little modules are putting a major stress on it but it is fun to see Coherent modules running on FreeBSD.