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[Brian Behlendorf <br...@hyperreal.org>]

>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
>Subject: Unix-on-Intel players work on a common binary
>Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
>Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 17:25:58 GMT
>Organization: Sound Software
>Lines: 76
>Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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>The 86open project
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>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 SolarisX86
>- - SCO UnixWare
>
>The goal of this effort is to encourage software developers to port
>to the Unix-Intel platform by reducing the effort needed to support
>the diverse mix of operating systems of this kind currently available.
>
>The specification, called "86open", will be published and freely
>available to any environment wishing compliance. It involves the use of a
>standardized 'libc' shared library of basic functions to be provided on
>all systems. This library will provide a consistent interface to
>programmers, hiding the differences between the various operating systems
>and allowing the resulting binary programs to run unaltered on any
>compliant system. Whenever possible, it will be consistent with The
>Open Group's Single Unix Specification.
>
>Each participating operating system will be free to implement the 86open
>library specification on its own. However, the reference implementation
>will be based upon GNU's 'glibc' version 2, ensuring that it will remain
>open and freely available. The actual list and behavior of the 86open
>functions is presently being determined.
>
>Participants in the meeting, who will be involved with the ongoing
>evolution of the 86open specification, include people deeply involved
>with the operating systems mentioned in this project. The 86open
>steering committee, a core of this group which will assemble
>the work and produce the final specification, comprises:
>
>Marc Ewing, Dion Johnson, Evan Leibovitch, Bruce Perens,
>Andrew Roach, Bryan Sparks and Linus Torvalds
>
>For more information, contact <86...@telly.org>
>or check http://www.telly.org/86open
>
>- -- 
>  Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
> Supporting PC-based Unix since 1985 / Caldera & SCO authorized /
www.telly.org
>When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem comes to look like
a nail
>
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"it's a big world, with lots of records to play."-sig   brian@hyperreal.org