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From: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.intel
Subject: moving binaries from one Altos to another
Keywords: altos 8086 80286 80386
Message-ID: <16511@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 88 23:05:06 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Waterloo [MFCF/ICR]
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I am posting this for a friend who does not get this newsgroup.  I know
nothing about any of the subject matter, so if I get things wrong, please
forgive me...

My friend has a couple of Altos systems (with 8086 and 80286 cpus, both
running Xenix 3).  He also has a new 80386 machine running Unix V 3.1
(which is supposed to be 'upward-compatible' with the old systems).  It
turns out that 8086 binaries will run on the new machine only if the were
complied small-model.  80286 binaries run only if compiled small- or medium-
model.  Needless to say, all his 8086 programs are medium model (nogood),
and his 80286 programs are large-model (also nogood).  Replacing all the
software would be expensive or (in some cases) impossible.

So:
	Is there a program which could take an 80286 large-model binary,
	and convert it to medium model OR an emulator to run the original
	program?
	[ we know there is a similar program to run 8086 binaries on an 80286 ]

	Does anybody know of a *good* disassembler?

	Is anybody with an Altos interesting in trading software?


Please send mail to me, and I will relay it to my friend.  Thanks.

 -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo Institute for Computer Research
 gamiddleton@math.waterloo.edu, watmath!gamiddleton