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[Duston, Hal]

D. Hageman [mailto:dhageman at dracken.com] wrote:
> Your logic is skewed.  Ask yourself this ... if you copied 
> a Mac binary to a Microsoft Windows box  could your run 
> that program?  The answer is no.  Reason?  It is a 
> different platform.  Different standard libraries, 
> different kernel, and different binary format (actually, 
> I need to check on the binary format ... I am not sure 
> what type of binaries are run on SCO).

Not to pick nits, but I _have_ run Mac binaries on a 
Microsoft Windows box with the proper emulator.

Executor: A Macintosh emulator for the PC.
Has both Windows and Linux versions.
http://www.ardi.com/executor/index.html 

Likewise there is an emulation library available 
to run Sco binaries on Linux.  This is actually 
much simpler, since the processors are the same, 
and the only real difference is the libraries, 
executable file format, and the system call 
interface.  Still quite a bit, but very doable.
And done actually.  You do need to be sure 
that you have support for Misc Binary formats 
compiled in your kernel I think.

Linux Support for Non-Linux Programs:
http://www.purplet.demon.co.uk/linux/ibcs/

Informix Ibcs Howto:
http://www.iiug.org/resources/linux/Howto_IBCS.html