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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>This is an archived copy of the 86open working group's convocational; it appears to have been removed from [http://www.telly.org/86open-orig telly.org]. This would lead to selection of the [[ELF|Executable and Linkable Format]] as a ''de facto'' standard object format for modern UNIXes. This text was taken from Bruce Perens's [http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1997/msg00028.html 1997-10-10 message] to the <tt>debian-announce</tt> [[Debian]] mailing list.<br />
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<pre> The 86open Project<br />
<br />
Unix-on-Intel players work on a common binary<br />
<br />
A group which includes some of the key developers of Unix operating<br />
systems on Intel architecture computers have agreed to work on a<br />
common programming and binary interface.<br />
<br />
At a meeting held mid-August at the head office of SCO, participants<br />
achieved consensus on a way to create software applications which<br />
would run, without modification or emulation, on the Intel-based<br />
versions of:<br />
<br />
* BSDI<br />
* FreeBSD<br />
* Linux<br />
* NetBSD<br />
* SCO OpenServer<br />
* Sunsoft Solaris<br />
* SCO UnixWare<br />
<br />
The goal of this effort is to encourage software developers to port to<br />
the Unix-Intel platform by reducing the effort needed to support the<br />
diverse mix of operating systems of this kind currently available.<br />
<br />
The specification, called "86open", will be published and freely<br />
available to any environment wishing compliance. It involves the use<br />
of a standardized libc shared library of basic functions to be<br />
provided on all systems. This library will provide a consistent<br />
interface to programmers, hiding the differences between the various<br />
operating systems and allowing the resulting binary programs to run<br />
unaltered on any compliant system. Whenever possible, it will be<br />
consistent with The Open Group's Single Unix Specification.<br />
<br />
Each participating operating system will be free to implement the<br />
86open library specification on its own. However, the reference<br />
implementation will be based upon GNU's glibc version 2, ensuring that<br />
it will remain open and freely available. The actual list and behavior<br />
of the 86open functions is presently being determined.<br />
<br />
Participants in the meeting, who will be involved with the ongoing<br />
evolution of the 86open specification, include people deeply involved<br />
with the operating systems mentioned in this project. The 86open<br />
steering committee, a core of this group which will assemble the work<br />
and produce the final specification, comprises:<br />
<br />
Marc Ewing, Dion Johnson, Evan Leibovitch, Bruce Perens, Andrew Roach,<br />
Bryan Sparks and Linus Torvalds<br />
<br />
For more information, contact 86open@telly.org.</pre></div>Dank