On Mar 15, 10:31pm, Michael Kronsteiner wrote: } } i have this discussion today aswell... considering 64/32bit machines. } if you want ultrix, install ultrix. if you want osf1/dec unix/tru64 } install that. being able to run ummm.... nearly 20 year old binaries... } well. if thats what you want be prepared for a ride. i never ran } "foreign" binaries on a BSD. and i often compile myself even on more } "user friendly" systems.
By any chance, have you seen our About page: http://www.netbsd.org/about/ ? The second paragraph reads thus: ----- One of the primary focuses of the NetBSD project has been to make the base OS highly portable. This has resulted in NetBSD being ported to a large number of hardware platforms. NetBSD is also interoperable, implementing many standard APIs and network protocols, and emulating many other systems' ABIs. ----- Emulating other systems is fundamental to what NetBSD is about. }-- End of excerpt from Michael Kronsteiner