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Ben Price (bprice@gil.com.au) wrote:
: Hello everyone..

: I have recently gained employment with a company that has a 'program' that 
: runs on many type of UNIXs (sun,sco,aix,etc. ).

: What i want to know will binaries from another UNIX platform run on Linux??  
: And if so what platform???

: Thanks for your time...

: Ben.
: bprice@gil.com.au

Yeah, a iBCS2, Intel Binary Compatibility Standard module under Linux allows 
you to run SCO binaries, probably r3.2v4.2 binaries (it was a popular O/S).
Not sure about r3.2v5.0.0 which makes use of ELF binaries. Of course not 
every program will run, it needs to be Intel based and use standard Unix 
system calls. This is really only relevant for commercial binaries, as GNU
peeple know their compiler well enough to compile programs.

Other not so wonderful Un*x implementations supported are:

System V Rel. 4 for Intel (Dell Unix, Interactive) - Bit stodgy, so un-BSD..
Wyse V/386 Unix - Erk! A licensed product?
SCO Xenix V/386 - Ok, wonderful for it's day
SCO Xenix 286   - Cute

Your employer most likely 'ports' their program about by recompiling it 
under SunOS/Solaris, SCO, AIX etc. Sounds nice and portable.

Cheers, Mike.