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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: A3000UX applications
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Keywords: What is ABI and are there any for the A3000UX
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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1991 02:12:17 GMT

In article <8823@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
>
>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...
>
	BUT, under SVR4 all that is necessary to port the
program, from Sun for example, is a mere recompilation. Unless
the program does something very unusual, X makes for a useful
standard.

	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.