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Re: Falcon - Future

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From: Howard Chu
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:56
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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

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