Sys V386 binaries working under SCO Xenix 2.3.2 ???
Clayton Haapala
clay at uci.com
Sat Feb 16 10:31:16 AEST 1991
In article <453 at lccinc.UUCP> bent at lccinc.UUCP (Ben Taylor) writes:
>Hello world,
> are 386 Coff format. I wasn't aware that Unix 3.2 binaries would
> run under Xenix. I knew they would go the other way tho? Any one
> care to comment on this. Maybe this is an isolated incident, however
Not isolated, at all. XENIX could do COFF before the SysV vendors could do
XENIX -- but it all comes from the binary compatibility agreements made
between the major players a couple of years ago. One Gate's major smart moves,
in my estimation.
Limitations? You can't do COFF 387 fpp emulation under XENIX, but it all
works great if you have a co-processor. Shared-libs (libc libnsl) are
provided under /shlib for XENIX, just like you'd expect on a COFF machine,
so these work, too.
I run Microport's old DWB package and used to run Green Hill's C under XENIX.
I replaced GCC with GNU GCC, and I may replace the DWB with Groff, now that
it's out.
Cheers.
--
Clayton Haapala (clay at uci.com)
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