der Mouse writes:

> > Can't you boot a sparcstation from a /netbsd kernel and run multiuser
> > with all SunOS 4.1.x binaries?  If so the author of "lsof" could test
> > on that without too much trouble.
> 
> Maaaaybe.  mount(8)/umount(8) might break; I'm not sure.  trace(1)
> definitely will not work.  There are doubtless plenty of others that
> won't work for various reasons.  The SunOS emulation is good, but far
> from perfect - heck, I've found one piece of software that breaks not
> because the SunOS emulation is imperfect but rather because of
> slow-start TCP in the kernel!

Even so, this gives me that nice, warm feeling of knowing that my nice
upgrade will be to a Sun SPARC.  Maybe I'll give all the Intel stuff
here a viking funeral.
-- 

Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  rmk@bedford.progress.com  rmk@tencats.tiac.net