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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wanted...Unix for PC
Message-ID: <32074@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 1 Jun 89 03:59:08 GMT
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In article <[3491.2]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
|Both 386/ix and SCO will run each other's binaries at this point.

That depends on what you mean by "run".  While I personally haven't
tried running 386/ix binaries on XENIX, we found that XENIX binaries
that altered character processing (eg CBREAK) didn't work correctly
under 386/ix (the simplest example is the XENIX binary for urogue).

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu