On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Brian Buhrow wrote:
SCO was pretty much pure SVR3, so noting that COMPAT_IBCS2 implements
SVR3 functionality is pretty much correct. Is anyone still using it?
I used it back-in-the day. I'm probably running some of the oldest
Unix variants and versions you'll run across. Also, where I work we
support legacy Unix platforms and we don't have any more SCO clients.
In my view "it's dead Jim". If we want to emulate a platform for
Oracle, I'd think the method dejour today would be Linux emulation.
Nowadays, I find that Unixware is a lot more interesting (free VxVM
anyone?) than SCO ever was. As you say, it was pretty much straight
SysV without many cool bells or whistles.
I also find SCO super-annoying now because it's so disagreeable about
it's licenses. It's tough to be more annoying than Tru64 about
licenses, but SCO manages. I know IT shouldn't be personal, but after
we all watched their public demise then Zombie SCO suing every FOSS
company they could left ashes in my mouth, personally.
I'm not anyone important in TNF, but I am a longtime user and user of
other platforms (SCO included) and my vote is to kill it and reduce
the kernel code size. :-)