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From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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Subject: Re: Announcing the availability of XFree86 1.1
Message-ID: <1992Oct7.194931.16296@crd.ge.com>
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:49:31 GMT
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In article <1992Oct3.215041.17541@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
| This, by the way, is a perfect example of why SVR4 is better than SCO.
| We have a single binary kit, ~20MB compressed, that works on SVR4 from 7
| different vendors.
This may come as a shock, but V.3 worked that way, too, and Xenix/386
binaries will run on virtually anything. And SCO binaries compiles for
8086 running in compatible library mode (-compat?) will run all the way
back to old Altos, etc, and forward to Destiny.
Where's the surprise in that?
--
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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