What platform can run m68k COFF binaries?
Al Kossow
aek at bitsavers.org
Wed Sep 5 16:26:40 CDT 2018
anything that came from Unisoft Sys V or early Motorola Sys V
ftp://ftp.oreilly.co.jp/palm/Linux/gcc/gdb-4.16/bfd/coff-aux.c
for example.
On 9/5/18 12:39 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
> Hi, All,
>
> I have a backup of some old code that I thought came from a Sun3
> machine, and indeed, there _are_ binaries on there, in a directory
> 'sun' that _do_ run on a Sun3, verified under emulation with "tme".
>
> 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.
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