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You've hit on exactly why they've come up with the Application Binary Interface. Write software that follows the ABI standard, and it runs on all ABI compliant machines. You're not stuck if you just have SCO UNIX (for example) and the software you want to run hasn't been ported. At one point, a binary from a Motorola machine (Delta maybe?) was brought over to the Amiga and it ran just fine. Unfortunately, because they've found a problem with the ABI implementation on Amiga UNIX, that will be (hopefully) fixed in a future release (supposedly 2.1 of UNIX). (Figures, doesn't it?) Probably runs most ABI compliant software, though. Steve