Moving from SCO to Linux

[Fairlight]

You'll never BELIEVE what Bill Campbell said here...:
> 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.

It was broken during the linux migration from a.out -> ELF.  The iBCS
module's x286emu portion then became unworkable.  And by that time, the
people in the community basically said, "Look, they've had five years or
more to migrate, screw 'em if they didn't."  That was actually the attitude
even as abi was being worked on.  The abi project was done only grudgingly,
and at the behest of (and with help from one of their engineers, I believe)
none other than Caldera.  

Apparently they didn't have a problem with linux -then-.  *cough*

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