A3000UX applications

Ethan Solomita es1 at cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Tue Apr 9 16:39:55 AEST 1991


In article <2671 at root44.co.uk> khh at root.co.uk (Keith Holder) writes:
>In <1522 at ewu.UUCP> mpierce at ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce) writes:
>
>>I hear that the A3000UX is ABI compatible.  I heard that this gives
>>it binary compatibility with certain applications which also 
>>conform to this standard, is this correct?  If so, is autocad ABI

>We have an Amiga in the office running Commodore's 1.1 version of
>System VR4 and I would say that it is not ABI compliant. We also
>have various other 68030 machines running V.4 from Motorola and
>binaries taken from these machines and run on the Amiga box
>result in core dumps. Looking at various header files on the
>Amiga and comparing them against the Motorola 68k ABI, I think
>that they have quite a way to go before they are ABI compatible.

	There is some other problem because AMIX is ABI
compliant. Also, I don't seem to remember hearing about a version
1.1, just 1.0, although I could be wrong about that. 

>	keith holder.
>
>Obviously, these are my opinions and do not reflect the opinions of my 
>employers who just so happen to produce a version of V.4 for the Motorola 68k.
>-- 
>--
>Keith Holder, Systems Software Consultant, UniSoft Ltd.
><khh at root.co.uk>	G1ITH	Fax:	(071) 729 3273
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	-- Ethan

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A: None. It's a hardware problem.



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