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My old man is going through a similar thought exercise right now. He is a retired hardware engineer/software entrepreneur who built a few businesses on top of S
by myfriende 6y ago
My old man is going through a similar thought exercise right now. He is a retired hardware engineer/software entrepreneur who built a few businesses on top of SCO's Unix back in the day. All the licensing (and floppys) are long gone but there exists a few towers that still boot. In the spirit of archiving all his work, he is now systematically DD'ing the SCSI drives onto external usb harddrives, moving them onto modern hardware and creating bootable VMware images.
I am sure that once VMware and etc catch up with the new Apple Silicon/ARM instruction, we won't be hearing much from people like the author who fear architecture and technology changes.
- m4rtink 6y agoMaybe qcow2/KVM would be better for this than VMware, as that's an open & widely available technology? Otherwise the cycle might repeat yet again once VMware goes under.
- myfriende 6y agoGreat point! Fact is the tooling is great in VMware and it's hard to get an old dog to learn new tricks. Getting the image to boot properly will be a win. We will see about moving it to open source afterwards..