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From: shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: binary Mach distribution for 386
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.180851.24790@mtxinu.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 91 18:08:51 GMT
References: <13963@uswat.UUCP> <1991Jan4.140341.11874@granite.cr.bull.com> <1991Jan05.021138.17495@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Reply-To: shore@mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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In article <1991Jan05.021138.17495@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:
>kittlitz@granite.cr.bull.com (Edward N. Kittlitz) writes:
>>Also, there is apparently no binary compatability
>>support (ABI?) for System V.3.
>
>nothing stops us from emulating that too.

This distribution is based on Mach 2.5, which has a monolithic kernel.
Filtering before execution might be a possibility, but Mach doesn't
support execution out of multiple 386 segments.
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