From: pete@q106fm.uucp (pete cervasio) Subject: Re: SysVr4 ABI (was Re: What *doesnt* work under linux) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 19:59:37 CST
rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
> >>>> Does/will Linux support the USL SysVr4/386 ABI?
............
> >Well, readers of this newsgroup will probably sniff at the idea of
> >running 123. But there are a vast number of applications which won't
> >run on Linux or any other UNIX-based platform, for that matter.
........
> And there is a huge array of shrinkwrapped applications for SCO UNIX.
>
> All I'm saying is that iBCS binary compatibility might be useful for
> increasing the number of Linux users in the general public.
I'd love to be able to go down to the store, buy the SCO version of
FoxBase and put it onto my Linux machine. I've got a bunch of code
written in xBase...
Maybe the FSF should write a GNU xBase compiler... :-)
Pete C.
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