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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 12:28:58 -0700
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Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
] However that wasn't really what I wanted to say here. I wanted to
] point out that there actually is a movement towards a common Intel
] ABI, called ABI+. The new thing in it is that they also put in specs
] for shared libraries. Major players in the game are Sun, SCO and SAS
] Institute and Metrolink (of Metro-X accelerated server fame), but as
] far as I can see everyone can join, there are publicly available
] conformance test suites, etc. One rather obvious drawback from a
] FreeOS point of view is that they use Motif as part of the
] specfication.
The conformance testing tests application conformance.
It does not test Operating System conformance.
As such, it is insufficient to really constitute an ABI
standard unless you pay the buy-in for OS conformance
testing. 8-(.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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