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From: bobk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Bob Kinne)
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Subject: Re: Binaries on DECstation 2100?
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Date: 17 Oct 89 16:11:57 GMT
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In article <20192@mimsy.UUCP> steve@umiacs.umd.edu (Steve D. Miller) writes:
>I have the feeling that this is a stupid question, but does a DECstation 2100
>run the *exact* same binaries (including the kernel!) as a DECstation 3100?

Its the same kind of question that, if not asked, could lead to some
real 'gotchas.'  Information that I have been given is that the DS2100
and DS3100 share the identical machine instruction set as well as
processor (identical architectures).  If this is true, then the
binaries are interchangable.

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