5 Sep
2018
5 Sep
'18
1:45 p.m.
On Wed, 9/5/18, Ethan Dicks via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
The part that puzzles me is the collection of object
files and
binaries in the directory above that.? 'file' tells me that they are
"m68k COFF" files.? From what I've read so far, COFF binaries are from
System V Release 2-4.? What I can't reconcile is what they might have
been compiled on.? Is it possible these were made for A/UX?? The
relevant file dates (late-1988 through mid-1989) do overlap
availability of A/UX version 1.
I'm pretty sure the AT&T UNIX PC (7300/3b1) used COFF.
I remember messing around with it when porting an old
version of gcc to the machine. At that time, GNU was
playing around with something called robotusin (COFF
medicine).
BLS