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From: hwajin@wrs.wrs.com (Hwa Jin Bae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 640K limit
Message-ID: <832@wrs.wrs.com>
Date: 22 Jan 90 07:14:47 GMT
References: <4668.25aed7f2@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1468@blackbird.afit.af.mil> <28808@amdcad.AMD.COM> <2021@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <28841@amdcad.AMD.COM>
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Organization: Wind River Systems, Emeryville, CA
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In article <28841@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
>How many can run the same binaries? Or will you need Sun-3 binaries,
>Sun-4 binaries, DECstation binaries, MIPS binaries, etc?

I doubt OS/2, if ported to machines of different processor architecture,
will be able to support the same binaries with reasonable efficiency (one
can indeed imagine a interpretive binary definition but it would be
too slow).  So I fail to see the point of this argument.
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hwajin@wrs.com
Wind River Systems, Emeryville CA