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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

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