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From: steve-t@hpfcso.HP.COM (Steve Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP9000 performance
Message-ID: <7370305@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 91 17:32:56 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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//bb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew)//
| The above statement, that all 200, 300, and 400 binaries are identical, is
| corroborated by an invocation of "file /bin/*", which describes all the
| executables as written for the "s200 ..." architecture.
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"file" is telling you a little white lie, because it's afraid that if it says
s300 some script of yours will break.  It seems unlikely that many of your 7.0
executables would run on an S200 or a Model 310, due to 68020 opcodes which
wouldn't work on those 68010 machines.
						Regards, Steve taylor

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