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In article <9311230542.AA15714@relay1.UU.NET> "Brian D. Wright" <bdw@PAUL.SPU.ED
 U> writes:
>Does it translate the #asm directives in C source to Intel instructions?

No, it doesn't.

Since my original reply didn't address C source level compatibility, perhaps
I should say something about that.

There are differences between OS-9/68000 and OS-9000.  For example, a disk
defragmenter for OS-9 will definitely require work to port, because RBF
devices are laid out considerably differently.  (One big example: if OS-9000
RBF sees that the entire contents of a file would fit in the file descriptor
sector, it will put them there.)  Also, if you're moving from OS-9/68000 to
OS-9000/80x86, then you have moving between processors to worry about--the
canonical example of this being byte ordering.

OTOH, there is a library that tries to simplify ports from OS-9 to OS-9000
by providing as similar as possible an interface to the system calls, and
of course things that don't directly deal with system calls can be quite
portable.

        James Jones

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