[CLUE-Talk] SCO providing Linux licenses

[Jim Ockers]

Jeffery Cann wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 22 July 2003 07:48, Jef Barnhart wrote:
> > With the release of 7.1.2(?) they had the "Linux personality" or some
> > such as that. 
> 
> When I was unfortunate enough to work in a SCO shop for 16 months in 1997-98, 
> there already was a binary emulation layer for Linux that one could use to 
> run SCO binaries.  Before Oracle ported to Linux, some other poor soul used 
> this layer to run SCO Oracle binaries on Linux.
> 
> I cannot remember the package, but I recall that Slackware shipped it for a 
> number of years (maybe still does - AFAIK).

iBCS - intel binary compatibility standard.  Back in the days when all the
PC unixes got along and played together, you could use iBCS for the above
purpose.  It actually worked pretty well I thought.  There was a kernel
module called iBCS.o that you could compile & load into your kernel to run
SCO binaries on Linux etc.

You had to make a couple of /dev device node files I think, but aside from
that it was pretty seamless.

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