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From: jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (Joel West)
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Subject: Re: Re: instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases
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(in article <...> mark horton [you know who and where he is] writes)
> However, this is misleading.  In the first place, dungeon is really an RSX-11
> binary (from a Fortran source) which was munged into a V6 binary which was
> in turn munged into a V7 binary (the differences between V6 and V7 binaries
> really aren't that great), and chess is really a V7 binary.
> 
> In the second place, what's really happening here is that these binaries are
> PDP-11 binaries (that's what V6 and V7 ran on) which are run in VAX
> compatibility mode (the VAX hardware supports such a thing) using a program
> called /usr/games/lib/compat and a front end to open the files.

Oh, oh.  I'm no longer looking forward to getting my MicroVAX II (which
I think has dumped PDP-11 once and for all).  I won't be able to play zork!
:-( [:-)]

	Joel West	CACI, Inc. - Federal (c/o UC San Diego)
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