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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
- Subject: Re: Falcon - Future
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.225650.20918@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:56:50 GMT
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- In article <37831@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- >> The thing about Atari ASV is that is ASV -- Atari System V. That means that
- >> you can buy off-the-shelf SysV 68K binaries and they'll run on your TT. This
- >> is better for people who want to do serious Unix work, rather than compile
- >> other sources.
- >
- >Is it ABI complient? Are there any off the shelf binaries available?
-
- Yes, it is ABI compliant. I would ask the second question myself; it doesn't
- seem that SVR4 is very popular on the 68K platform. In fact, the ABI supplement
- for 68K went out of print last year; I had a very hard time getting my hands
- on a copy.
- --
- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
-
- All true wisdom is conveyed in one-line witticisms.
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