Xenix Executables

[bill brothers]

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 ? 
>

It is pretty simple: If it works, don't fix it. There are many utilities
that will never need more data space, etc.  Besides, anytime you touch a
program it tends to break. An added benefit-- You don't have to have a
somebody run 47 tests on the program if it hasn't changed. It was a
concious, deliberate decision process on which programs to migrate to
higher planes. Just because the module is marked 386 doesn't make it any
better program than 8086. It just means it won't run on older platforms.


Bill Brothers
ISV Support Specialist
brothers at weitek.COM
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>Bob
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