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From: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 Rumor - InfoWorld
Message-ID: <284@amix.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Jan 90 01:55:19 GMT
References: <28899@dhw68k.cts.com>
Reply-To: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Organization: Commodore Amix Development
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In article <28899@dhw68k.cts.com> daveegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Dave Egan) writes:
>   Unix V, Rel 4
>	 - with ABI - run any 68030 ABI software (A?? Binary Interchange??)
>           (BTW- I've heard that AMIX 'taint no more, since C-A has fully
>	         implemented Unix V.4, they can now call it Unix)

We could call it Unix before (System V R3 I mean).  We are staying
with the name Amix because we like like.

ABI (Application Binary Interface) is a standardization of a binary
interface for programs.  This standardization would allow some random
to compile an application for the m68k on any ABI machine and have it
run on any other m68k-ABI machine.

For instance, when we went over to Motorola to show them our current
system, they just grabbed the korn shell binary off of one of their
68k boxes and it ran on our amiga System V Release 3.2 (this was a
while a go) with no problems.

Pax, Keith
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ag@amix.commodore.com        Keith Gabryelski          ...!cbmvax!amix!ag