[plug] [link] big news - Tel$ra on Linux ?

[Craig Ringer]

>>Yeah.... like I retain SCO OpenServer here, perhaps - because I CAN'T 
>>GET RID OF IT.
> 
> We'll have to sit down and work out exactly why; next time I don't
> forget about a PLUG workshop.

Not going to happen ; sorry. You'd be wasting your time. We need 
OpenServer for our ancient Accounts & Bookings system, which is a custom 
application written in Plain English for Microsoft Xenix/386. It runs 
under SCO only in a Xenix kernel personality, and there's no hope of 
getting the binaries running under Linux (except in a VM - and what 
would be the point?). Source code for the Plain English execution 
environment is not avalable, and I expect it would take an incredible 
amount of porting if it was. The darn thing doesn't even use termcap, 
letalone terminfo, it uses some horrible hardcoded terminal emulation 
for a hacked-up ANSI terminal.

We're slowly working on replacing it, but it's a slow and painful process.

Craig Ringer