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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore at FCC
Message-ID: <22208@grebyn.com>
Date: 25 Sep 90 15:50:28 GMT
References: <22107@grebyn.com> <14568@cbmvax.commodore.com> <22153@grebyn.com> <14621@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies)
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In article <14621@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <22153@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>>Sun adopting 68K ABI? This I've gotta see. They don't seem to be
>>interested in improving their 68K line at all.  
>
>Regardless of whether or not Sun decides to continue or drop support for
>their [rather substantial] installed base of 680x0 machines, it's still A
>Good Thing For Us that Sun is merging SunOS with AT&T UNIX...

Well, I see no motivation for Sun to adopt the "standard" 68K ABI for
Sys V.4.  In terms of supporting their own user base, they are best
served by continuing support of their own ABI, which is after all what
all the 68K SunOS programs use.  Adopting the "standard" would only
serve to brighten the hopes of other 68K makers who hope to run SunOS
binaries, like, er, Amiga Unix.

If you want to ride the Sun bandwagon, you'd better come out with a
Sparc coprocessor.  Else forget it.
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