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From: jewett@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Bob Jewett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP9000 performance
Message-ID: <63300024@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 20:08:41 GMT
References: <13092@sunquest.UUCP>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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> 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.  I ran this on a 300 series machine, that returns "HP-UX
> kzin 7.0 B 9000/375 kzin" for "uname -a".

This is due to a deficiency in /usr/bin/file and/or /etc/magic.  It
looks like all occurrences of "s200" in /etc/magic ought to be
"s300/s400" now.  In addition, /usr/bin/file seems not to notice that a
file has been compiled with the -ffpa flag and requires an FPA card to
run (on a 9000/350, for example).

Bob
[Not an official, etc.]