[cctalk] Re: SCO on Virtualbox

On 8/3/23 13:21, KenUnix via cctalk wrote: I'd be curious given the nature of SCO if anyone has posted the goods to install any of them, and what versions. That aside, as mentioned by Grant, the system then was broken down with so many bits and pieces with different tariffs on the parts that it was a bitch to get one running. Not only was Linux "free" to get early on, but it didn't screw with holding back anything. Not to mention you were on your own to fix stuff and contribute to the effort. I don't know how many engineers SCO had working on support, but once Linux took off there were a lot working on it, and later a lot of resources to ask for help and support, vs. sending a bug report or support request down the black hole at SCO. I'd certainly try virtualbox, vmware and QEMU to see if it ran. I'm still playing with the latter to get guest networking going, and with older NICs on old SCO distributions, you may have some challenges having support. But the 3M controllers seemed to be a hardware universal device pre virtualization, and I'd hope any i386 virtualization would still have support. I still have boxes with hopefully SCO install goods, but haven't looked into getting them running in a long time. thanks Jim