Installation guide

• Support applications that read system memory by using /dev/kmem or
/dev/mem.
• Support applications that depend on exact memory layout or file
formats of system-provided files.
• Translate ULTRIX executables older than ULTRIX Version 4.0.
• Translate MIPS executables other than ULTRIX and DIGITAL UNIX
Version 1.0 executables.
• Translate big endian MIPS programs.
• Provide precise exception behavior.
• Emulate MIPS instruction atomicity.
• Translate MIPS II or MIPS III programs (no R4000 processor support).
• Enable translated programs to use the DIGITAL UNIX shared libraries.
For more information on the mx translator and the mxr run-time
environment, see the DECmigrate for DEC OSF/1 V1.2: Translating
Executables manual.
1–12 Introduction to Migrating from ULTRIX to DIGITAL UNIX Systems