Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!letni!doug From: doug@letni.UUCP (Doug Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr Subject: Re: SVR4 Keywords: Local SE, never Message-ID: <18360@letni.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 90 16:21:03 GMT References: <1990Dec9.150131.36596@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <4172@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Organization: Logic Process Unix Engineering, Dallas Office Lines: 29 In article nolan@iti.org (Mike Nolan) writes: >According to the latest info from NCR, SVR4 will *NOT* be ported to the >Tower, but only to the System 3000 intel-based (80386 and 80486) platforms. >This sharply contradicts what NCR was saying as recently as last May, when >they were saying that SVR4 would be ported to the Tower, but only to the >models using the 68030 or 68040 processor. If you're on a smaller Tower, >you're SOL in either event. Perhaps I could shed a little light on this, as a developer of NCR tower clones (yes, not the peecee ones) we committed to SVR4 back in December of last year. The M68k release (from at&t) was expected sometime in October. To this date we haven't seen it, nor does it look like it will be any time real soon. Giving that the '86 code has been available for a while it is quite likely that NCR is only talking about SVR4 for '86 machines, since that code is in a known state. Yes, you can port the '86 code to the M68k platform, but that is non-trivial and most M68k vendors would rather start thier unixs from the base port. (Besides the fact nowdays you get to pay at&t twice for having a source license for more than one processer) doug __ Doug Davis/4409 Sarazen/Mesquite Texas, 75150/214-270-9226 {texsun|lawnet|smu}!letni!doug doug@letni.lonestar.org "Be seeing you..."