[CLUE-Talk] SCO providing Linux licenses

Matt Gushee mgushee at havenrock.com
Tue Jul 22 13:53:13 MDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:32:13PM -0600, Jeffery Cann wrote:
> 
> 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).

Wasn't that 'ibcs' (for Intel Binary Compatibility ... Stuff?
Syndrome?)?

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