Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> David Evans wrote:
> 
> >   I'm a little confused about the current state of executable formats and
> > so just want to check things out.
> 
> I should add this to the FAQ, but will be out of town for a couple of
> days in a few hours.  If David Brownlee doesn't beat me to it I'll try
> to remember to do it when I get back.
> 

...

  Thanks for the info.  Seems that I was mostly right; good to hear about the
"grand scheme" for the bootblocks, too.

> > The context of this is I'm trying to bring up a 3100 that seems very unstable
> > under 1.3.3 but has been pretty much OK so far using the 'ssto' kernel from
> > the February snapshot.  This is that same pesky 3100 that died horribly early
> > with a TLB miss under 1.2* and 1.3 but ran fine under Ultrix.
> 
> I've seen a couple of messages from you on this but have no answers :-(
> 

  Well, not much has changed for me either, except that the February snapshot
seems to be quite a bit more reliable.  At one point I had a 2100 and this
3100 so I could do some debugging but even then I had only one monitor cable
so it was a royal pain to switch back and forth.  Maybe in the next few months
I'll procure another box and use it for builds.
  Or I could make a cross environment on my Indigo R4k and have a "virtual"
/260.  :)

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