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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: NeXT to go with 88K (?)
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Date: 12 Apr 91 14:40:00 GMT
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In article <GUMBY.91Apr12060409@Cygnus.COM> gumby@Cygnus.COM (David V. Wallace) writes:

   And as far as the 88K goes, it turns out that you could make a tool
   which would convert 68K binaries into 88K binaries (as long as they
   ran completely in user space).  This is hard to do in general; it's
   just due to certain architectural similarities that you can get away
   with it in this particular combination.  Who knows about performance
   though...

Call me crazy, but I don't think developers should have too many
problems just recompiling their programs.  The word alignment is the
only one that springs to mind, assuming that they have written their
programs in Objective C and not assembler.

-Mike