Xenix Executables

[Rick Odeen]

In article <165 at raider.MFEE.TN.US> root at raider.MFEE.TN.US (Bob Reineri) writes:
>I noticed the other day, while poking around with the 'file' command on Xenix
>386 2.3.1, that many of the binaries are 8086 and 80286 files ! Things like
>grep, and find are 8086 junk. 
>
>Could someone tell me, why on earth would SCO not simply recompile these things
>to take advantage of the 80386 ? SCO ?? I almost can't believe my eyes. This is
>quality control ? 


An interesting side note to this..  Recently there was discussion on the
net about the lack of a 2.3.2  Xenix 286 version of the C.  Well, the latest
upgrade of the 2.3.2 Xenix 386, the 286 and dos cross development compiler
is compiled for the 286.  Hmmmm.


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