Subject: Re: sunos
To: The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/22/1997 16:24:01
> 
> On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, xiamin wrote:
> 
> > can we run binaries from other unices? like sunos? or linux? or anyhting 
> > else?
> 
> I think that there's partial compatibility, at least in the netbsd-sun
> port, for running sunos-68k binaries, and that may or may not extend into
> the mac68k port.  If it doesn't, it's probably addable without too much
> difficulty.  That's not a big help, though, unless you happen to have
> binaries for a 68k-based sun.  You can definitely run netbsd-amiga
> binaries, and I think netbsd-sun (68k) binaries, too.

The beauty is that it's a m68k thing, so (AFAIK) we have it too. I've
run static sunos programs before. The probelm was that I wanted to run
dynamicly linked programs & didn't find the all the libraries. :-(

Take care,

Bill