From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 20 18:19:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA04852 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04842 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-59.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.59]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA09479 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:18:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12740 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 19:40:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199808210040.TAA12740@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Off-topic: IRIX 5.3 In-reply-to: Message from "Jason C. Wells" of "Wed, 19 Aug 1998 20:55:21 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 19:40:43 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jason C. Wells" writes: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > I know that this is offtopic, but I need to get ahold of an > >IRIX 5.3 CD (for SimOS). Anyone know where I can find one of > >these? Sales numbers at SGI are also welcome. > > > > I know zip about SGI, but apparently the 6.4 CD that I have > >will not suit my purposes. > > I can tell you this. SGI made a change in binary file format from 5.3 to > 6.4 so if you are thinking about mixing and matching binaries and kernels > you best be careful. Irix 4.x was COFF, Irix 5.x was both COFF and ELF, Irix 6.x is ELF only. The 5.3 kernel was COFF. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message