From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   On 1/4/20 10:15 AM, philo wrote:   
   > On 1/3/20 11:18 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:   
   >> On 1/3/20 8:11 PM, philo wrote:   
   >>> For me, the best gaming is fooling around with operating systems.   
   >>   
   >> Hear hear!   
   >>   
   >>> While looking around I saw the Net BSD uses the Unix shell.   
   >>   
   >> That's because NetBSD is a unix.  I don't know if it has any legal   
   >> claim to the Unix name including the capital U or not.   
   >>   
   >> There are many Unix operating systems (proper / capital U).  There are   
   >> even more unix (like) operating systems.   
   >>   
   >> You have touched on three of them in this thread; SCO Unix (I don't   
   >> recall which one), Linux, NetBSD.  There are probably three orders of   
   >> magnitude more unix like operating systems.   
   >>   
   >>> I may do an installation and see if I can get any of the binaries   
   >>> from the Unix machine to run.   
   >>   
   >> I'd be somewhat surprised if SCO binaries will run in NetBSD.  But   
   >> maybe they will.   
   >>   
   >> I'd encourage you to do a fresh install of UnixWare / OpenServer /   
   >> Xenix in a VM and trying to get the binaries running there.   
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   > As it turned out I found a pre-made version of Free BSD that I can run   
   > in Virtual Box   
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   > For now , this is about all the experimenting I will probably do.   
   >   
   > Even though I have setup Virtual Box to share an external folder I   
   > cannot see it when I'm booted to Free BSD nor can I figure out how to   
   > mount that folder.   
   >   
   >   
   > Back to poking around now.   
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   OK   
      
   Tried to run a Unix binary on Free BSD and it was ...as you figured...a   
   no go.   
      
      
   I have fooled with this too much and am now going to pack things away   
      
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