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- From: mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon - Future
- Message-ID: <724450636.15192@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:17:17 GMT
- References: <A43179@K.maus.de> <921206483@ritz.mordor.com> <723856948.23343@minster.york.ac.uk> <37831@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Reply-To: mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk (Mathew Lodge)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
- Lines: 33
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- In article <37831@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- >In article <723856948.23343@minster.york.ac.uk> mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk (Mathew Lodge) [That's me, that is] 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's ABI compliant. Hence any SysV 68K binary will work. As to the
- actual availability of 68K ABI binaries then I have no idea. However, I
- would guess that there are more chances of finding ABI 68K binaries than
- binaries for proprietary small-system Unixes [note how this sentence is
- carefully constructed to avoid refering to companies like, oh, Sun or NeXT)
-
- >> What's more, the same company that did the Atari Unix port also did the
- >> Amiga SysV port, and the Mac SysV port.
- >
- >Since Commodore did their own System V port for the Amiga, the above is
- >pretty bogus...
-
- I'll check my source on the Amiga port (the ST and Mac stuff is definitely
- correct (although Apple did some munging of the port themselves afterward))
- The conversation where I heard the info was over a year ago. Anyhow, I'll
- get back to you :-)
-
- >George Robbins - now working for, work: to be avoided at all costs...
-
- Mat
-
- | Mathew Lodge | "I don't care how many times they go |
- | mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk | up-tiddly-up-up. They're still gits." |
- | Langwith College, Uni of York, UK | -- Blackadder Goes Forth |
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