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From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff)
Subject: Re: WP for Linux, BSD?
Message-ID: <1994Mar10.062101.23875@news.csuohio.edu>
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 06:21:01 GMT
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: Huh?
: 
: In the same Motif announcement, *BSD support (sans 386) was also put forth:

	I said two versions since there was/is a guy in Italy who was
selling motif 1.1 for the *BSD's from almost a year or more ago.
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: >DEERFIELD BEACH, FL --- FEBRUARY 8, 1994 --- Sequoia International, Inc.
: >announces OSF/MOTIF 1.2.3 for the following operating system environments:
: >
: >                                 Coherent 4.2
: >                                  Linux 0.99
: >                                  BSD/386 1.0
: >                                 FreeBSD 1.0.2
: 
: Also, I may be showing my ignorance, but what does IBSC2 support have to do
: with building apps for any un*x?  I've never heard of it; what is it?
: 
	It's the Intel Binary Compatibility Standard version 2 or
somesuch.  (I kind of thought that I spelled it wrong.)  Intel will
provide you with a nice couple hundred page softbound copy of it for
$25-$35.00.  I very, very, briefly looked at a copy of it at a technical
bookstore.  (I only had $5-$10.00 on me at the time ;))  Anyway, it
documents the file format and library call support to run SVID type
unix programs on X86 processors.  The bottom line, being able to
run the same SCO Wordperfect binary on SCO, ISC, Unixware (<- tm.'s)
and sooner or later Linux.

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