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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: segaloco <segaloco@protonmail.com>,
	The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Origins of the SGS (System Generation Software) and COFF (Common Object File Format)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 06:30:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wcz60x5ae.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2NHvSPvJR81d4hPM9F1X0tV08Z9_g9EVV9MB-uA0vg_Mw@mail.gmail.com> (Clem Cole's message of "Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:20:05 -0500")

Clem Cole wrote:
> MIT had a modified a.out format for the NU machine ports - that might
> have been called b.out.  CMU had macho which again was an extended
> a.out but even more flexible.

Digital Research's GEMDOS also used a modified a.out format (at least as
found on the Atari ST), pretty much the original PDP-11 format with
32-bit addresses.

[Shouldn't this go to the COFF mailing list... oh sorry.]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-23  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
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
2023-02-23 15:13 Noel Chiappa
2023-02-23 21:37 Paul Ruizendaal
2023-02-23 22:11 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-24  0:07   ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-25 20:14 Brian Walden
2023-02-26 15:51 Paul Winalski

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