Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: A3000UX applications Keywords: What is ABI and are there any for the A3000UX Message-ID: <8823@gollum.twg.com> Date: 8 Apr 91 17:49:25 GMT References: <1522@ewu.UUCP> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 28 In article <1522@ewu.UUCP> mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce) writes: >I hear that the A3000UX is ABI compatible. I heard that this gives >it binary compatibility with certain applications which also >conform to this standard, is this correct? If so, is autocad ABI >compatible, and if so does that mean it will run on the A3000UX? ABI can only specify compability among Unix on processors of a certain family. In this case only among 680x0 based Unix boxen. I don't know of many in that family which are ABI, but there probably are a few. You will not (obviously?) be able to take 80386 ABI binaries over to an Amiga Unix system and do anything useful with them... A possible reason for the rumor floating about last fall of discussions 'tween Sun & C= is C= wanting Amiga Unix to be able to run SunOS binaries. *THAT* would be *useful* ... ABI specifies the `numbers' for the system calls & what system calls are there & what arguments they take & such. I suppose it also specifies things about shared libraries and who knows what else. David -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- "MS-DOS? Where we're going we don't need MS-DOS." --Back To The Future