Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdahl!nsc!glennw
From: glennw@nsc.nsc.com (Glenn Weinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: do it yourself project?
Summary: Encore uses COFF
Keywords: Encore, COFF, a.out
Message-ID: <7884@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 18 Nov 88 00:40:11 GMT
References: <1268@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <2644@sultra.UUCP> <7465@daver.UUCP> <7856@nsc.nsc.com>
Reply-To: glennw@nsc.nsc.com.UUCP (Glenn Weinberg)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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In article <7856@nsc.nsc.com> rfg@nsc.nsc.com.UUCP (Ron Guilmette) writes:
>If you want to help test & fix GAS/32000, I suggest that you have access to
>a Sequent-Balance, Encore-Multimax, or some other BSD (i.e. a.out) based
>32000 system for you testing base.

I'd just like to point out that both the BSD and System V versions of
UMAX (the Multimax Un*x port) use COFF, not a.out.  This was done to
allow the same binaries (e.g., utilities) to run on both systems.  As I
recall, the only reason COFF was chosen over a.out was that the tools
Encore decided to use already generated COFF.


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