On Sep 11, 6:38pm, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: } On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 03:35:24PM +0000, Eduardo Horvath wrote: } > } > It's probably only useful for running ancient SunOS 4.x binaries, maybe } > Ultrix, Irix or OSF-1 depending on how closely they followed BSD 4.3. } } Actually, I think amd64, sparc64, and mips64 are the only platforms where } it could even be possible to encounter netbsd32 executables that required } system calls that had the "o" names in 4.3BSD. } } On amd64, because i386 architecture SunOS 4 executables exist and I am not } sure the SunOS 4 kernel did actually pick up all the new syscalls from
Yeah, but that would be the Roadrunner, which I believe was pretty rare, and a bit of a quirky system (software and hardware wise). I did lay eyes on one once many years, but I don't believe I touched that one. I suspect that not very many people have even seen one. } 4.3BSD. Whether such executables would run at all though, I'm not sure; Personally, I have my doubts. } there is probably other COMPAT_SUNOS code needed that may not work on i386. } }-- End of excerpt from Thor Lancelot Simon