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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Origins of the SGS (System Generation Software) and COFF (Common Object File Format)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:13:27 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230223151327.8B2C818C0A5@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Clem Cole

    > MIT had a modified a.out format for the NU machine ports - that might
    > have been called b.out.

Yes. Here's the man page output:

  http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/help/b.out.lpt

(I don't have the source for that, alas.) It's basically just a.out with
32-bit fields instead of 16-bit. I have a .h file for the format too, if
anyone has any interest in it. It's all part of the MIT 68K workbench that
used PCC (the source for all of which I do have).

	 Noel

             reply	other threads:[~2023-02-23 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-23 15:13 Noel Chiappa [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-02-26 15:51 Paul Winalski
2023-02-25 20:14 Brian Walden
2023-02-23 21:37 Paul Ruizendaal
2023-02-23 22:11 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-24  0:07   ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-22 20:16 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-22 22:20 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2023-02-23  0:17   ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-23  6:30   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-02-23 14:25     ` KenUnix
2023-02-23 19:37     ` Warner Losh
2023-02-24 17:01       ` Rich Salz
2023-02-23 16:49   ` Paul Winalski
2023-02-23 18:38     ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-23 20:40       ` Paul Winalski
2023-02-24 12:45     ` arnold
2023-02-24 13:13       ` Arno Griffioen via TUHS
2023-02-25 19:28         ` arnold
2023-02-25 19:34           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-02-24 14:01       ` Harald Arnesen
2023-02-25  2:07     ` Dave Horsfall
2023-02-25 15:30       ` Clem Cole
2023-02-25 17:29         ` Paul Winalski

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