OT: does sco filepro run on freeBSD?

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019, oldtony via Filepro-list wrote:
>Hi Experts - OT: does sco filepro run on freeBSD? What port is good to use? -

Running old SCO COFF binaries is an 'interesting' proposition today.

The best way I've found using current systems it to run the SCO
system under some version of VMware.  VMware provides SCSI
emulation unlike the KVM/qemu virtualization on CentOS/Red Hat,
which works well with old OpenServer systems that don't grok SATA.

This is much faster than the native SCO system.

I had one client running this way, starting with 'dd' created
disk images from the SCO system.  Getting the disk configuration
correct for VMware was a bit tricky.  I would have to go back in
time to figure out what I did.  The only thing I remember is that
I needed to get the disk configuration on the SCO system using
forgotten SCO admin tools.

I have systems running SCO COFF binaries under Linux with iBcs,
but this has been dropped from current Linux releases.  The most
recent I know of is SuSE Pro 9 which I have running under VMware
to support my old Unify RDBMS based accounting software.

Bill
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