Re: *Semi-Off-Topic* Unix-on-Intel players work on a common binary

Jim Nance (jlnance@avanticorp.com)
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 07:41:16 -0400


> The 86open project
> ------------------
>
> A group which includes some of the key developers of Unix operating
> systems on Intel architecture computers have agreed to work on a
> common programming and binary interface.
>
> At a meeting held mid-August at the head office of SCO, participants
> achieved consensus on a way to create software applications which would
> run, without modification or emulation, on the Intel-based versions of:
>
> - BSDI
> - FreeBSD
> - Linux
> - NetBSD
> - SCO OpenServer
> - Sunsoft Solaris
> - SCO UnixWare

My how the world changes.

Jim