Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!mcdchg!laidbak!ism.isc.com!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!rutgers!cbmvax!ag From: ag@cbmvax.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: UNIX sys V4.0 Message-ID: <15272@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 19 Oct 90 15:14:34 GMT References: <15224@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Oct19.092925.4876@isis.cs.du.edu> Reply-To: ag@cbmvax.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) Organization: Commodore-Amiga Unix; West Chester, PA Lines: 16 In article <1990Oct19.092925.4876@isis.cs.du.edu> bscott@isis.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes: >Would someone please give me a little information on what "ABI compliant" >means? I've heard this phrase, and the context leads me to believe that >there is some binary-executable standard for 68K Unix machines. So what >is ABI, and is it new, and how many other 68K series Unix machines will >support it, and all that? There is a 68k binary-executable standard that was developed by Motorola and UniSoft. It tells us how an executable will interface to system calls and libraries. If you make your system compatible with the ABI any ABI-compliant program can run on it (whether it was compiled on an Amiga Machine or a Motorola Machine or whatever) Pax, Keith