From: luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey) Subject: a.out format compatiblity Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 19:25:58 GMT
I recall a while back a postin in comp.os.coherent that some
one was using Coherent to develop programs to run on xenix.
It was much more cost effective for him to buy coherent for
$100, than the N-thousand dollar SCO C development suite, and
that the a.out execuatble binary formats were compatable.
Does Linux (and/or BSD386 for that matter) maintain that
compatiblity in a.out format? Even if just in small model
programs? Can binarys migrate in one direction and not the
reverse (such as linux using 386 instructions that the 286
based coherent can't cope with)?