Moving from SCO to Linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004, Brian K. White wrote:
...
>xenix-286 binaries were briefly supported in linux 1.something using iBCS.o
>note: not the later iBCS2.o, nor any version of linux-abi
>
>Linux did it's typical Linux thing and changed, making it theoretically
>still possible but not easy to support 286 binaries anymore, and no one ever
>happened to feel like doing the work.

Once up a time, I looked at the iBCS code to see if I could re-enable the
286 support, but quickly decided that it was far too messy for me.

Given that I avoided all Intel architecture systems prior to the Tandy 4000
running Xenix on a 386-16 in 1987, I've never worried much about the older,
totally brain-dead, Intel CPUs.

Bill
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