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From: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Further evidence of Convergent's hand in the UNIX PC
Keywords: Just a little trivia...
Message-ID: <3797@pitt.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 17:13:58 GMT
References: <470@icus.UUCP>
Reply-To: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman)
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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In article <470@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>I wonder if the UNIX PC programs will run under a Convergent Miniframe?

Yes, so long as they don't use the shared libraries.  The Miniframe's
OS is just slightly older than the Unix PC's.  It doesn't have shared
libraries or loadable device drivers.  Miniframe binaries run fine on
Unix PCs, too.

	---Bob.

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Bob Hoffman, N3CVL       {allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!hoffman
Pitt Computer Science    hoffman@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu