On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:39:07PM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >IBCS2 is in no way related to BSDI.
> 
> well...partly yes, and partly no.  IBCS2 stands for "Intel Binary
> Compatibilty [sic, see compat_ibcs2(8)] Standard 2", so that's not
> BSDI, but BSDI binaries are of the IBCS2 format.  yes?

They... weren't. I'm not aware of them changing, but I probably wouldn't
be.

BSDI used (uses?) an a.out format compatible with NetBSD 0.8 I believe

> >IBCS2 is a binary interface standard for i386 application programs running
> >on systems that implement the SVID. The last version I saw (1991) only
> >specified the COFF executable format and x.out (XENIX) compatibility.
> >IBCS2 allows us to run SCO XENIX, SCO UNIX, and some ISC UNIX binaries.

I think the list would include Dell SVR4, and Coherent Unix as well, but
I didn't want to put them in the list until someone mentioned using
them - since I'm not 'certain'.

> "sco xenix" and "sco unix"?  hmm...i guess i'm getting a little out of
> my depth.  still, if we can emulate BSDI, then i feel the list should
> say so.  saying IBSC2 seems a little out of place, when (a) all the
> other things in that list are operating systems and (b) surely there
> are *other* operating systems out there that use IBCS2 that we cannot
> emulate?

That's the good question, but I've re-organized the list to make IBCS2
a sub-list, and BSDI a seperate item. Give it an hour to show up.

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