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From: barry@speaker.metaphor.com (Barry Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT, and while I'm at it, MIDI
Keywords: TT, MIDI, capital letters
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Date: 13 Feb 91 23:49:04 GMT
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In article <1991Feb13.001117.24061@rice.edu> bdm@spacsun.rice.edu (Brian D. Moore) writes:
>
>     I was just reading some info on the TT package and I have to wonder:
>Why are they shipping UNIX V.4? This is at least two generations behind the
>last version I know of, which is at least a year old to boot.  Is this going
>to be like the TOS story, with three or four different versions floating
>around, and patches following them like abandoned puppies?  

I think by UNIX V.4 you mean SVR4 which is the STANDARD UNIX according to
AT&T and Unix International (the OSF disagrees). This is something of a 
unified UNIX definition (Xenix, BSD, UNIX V, etc) and includes support 
for networking, real time and X window system.  I'd like to hear about a 
binary standard for 68K based SVR4 (there's already one for Intel I 
think). This would allow running software on the TT that was not 
specifically developed for it (ie. it was developed for any 68K machine 
running SVR4).

Any news on 68K SVR4 ABI (Application Binary Interface)? Am I just dreaming
here?

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