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From: dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Integer Multiply/Divide on Sparc
Message-ID: <3318@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 12 Jan 90 22:40:24 GMT
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In article <96@zds-ux.UUCP> gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason) writes:
>What I am curious about is whether there have been any reasonable
>proposals for the RFP that OSF put out last year.  The one for
>an architecture independent distribution standard, or whatever
>they called it.  To me it sounded like a great idea that might
>be impossible in practice.

From Byte Magazine, Nov. 1989, p. 368, "DOS at RISC" (ouch!),
by Colin Hunter:

"...Hunter Systems has submitted the Analyzer and XDOS to the OSF
as an Architecturally Neutral Distribution Format, or ANDF."

The interesting article describes XDOS, a system that the article
claims generates "true binary ports" of MS-DOS programs to many
UNIX platforms. I have no experience with this product. Does
anyone else?

Dan Mocsny
dmocsny@uceng.uc.edu