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Keywords: Unix Linux Alpha EM86 Emulators BLU.ORG Meeting Topic for May: "EM86: Running Linux/Intel Applications on the Linux/Alpha Platform" Presented by: Jim Paradis <paradis at amt.tay1.dec.com> ABSTRACT: Jim Paradis returns to show us the latest developments for Linux on the Digital Alpha architecture: EM86. The Linux/Alpha team at Digital Equipment Corporation has released a developers' beta version of EM86, a Linux/x86 emulator for Linux/Alpha. EM86 is a software emulator that enables Linux/Alpha systems to run Linux/x86 software without modification. EM86 currently supports statically linked and dynamically linked x86 ELF32 binaries under Linux/Alpha. Future enhancements will include support for iBCS-2 compliant executables, improved emulator performance, and interoperation with native Alpha code. A release incorporating these features is anticipated in July, 1997. The following Linux/x86 software packages run successfully on this beta version of EM86, with some qualifications as described in the README file included in the distribution: Netscape Navigator Gold 3.01 Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 Red Baron web browser 3.00 Applixware 4.2 EM86 may be obtained via anonymous ftp from: ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/em86 ________________________________________________________________ Portions (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1997. All rights reserved. Netscape Navigator Gold is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation. Acrobat Reader is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Applixware is a trademark of Applix, Inc. ________________________________________________________________ Who: Boston Linux & Unix Group [BLU.ORG] Date: 21 May 1997, Wednesday Time: 7:00 pm. Place: MIT, Building 1 Room 390 -- Bechtel Hall ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The Boston Linux & Unix Group [BLU.ORG], is the successor to the Boston Computer Society's Linux & Unix User Group. We want to promote the awareness and use of Open Systems, and to educate the public and our members about Open Systems. Linux is a UNIX-like operating system built around POSIX standards. >From its inception less than six years ago, it was developed over the Internet by a group of people who (for the most part) have never seen each other, and now runs on an (estimated) 1,000,000 computer systems. The operating system (and the source code for it) is free to anyone who wants it. It has been ported to at least the following platforms: Intel, SPARC, Alpha, MIPS, PPC, and M68K. This is probably the largest development project ever accomplished using the Internet. For the latest information on this talk, please see the URL: >>>> http://www.blu.org/ <<<< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Please Note: This Page is Still Under Construction! For a map showing where the meetin hall is located, please see the URL: >>>> http://registrar.mit.edu/map/ <<<< Coming in June: Lar Kaufman, co-author of "Running Linux", speaks on the Legal Implications of Developing for Linux. ********************************************************************** Guy Bzibziak * "Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi." Boston, MA USA * - Pygmalion, by G. B. Shaw ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: guybz at world.std.com Voice# (Days Only): 617-536-5200 FAX# (Days Only): 617-536-0394 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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