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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help us defend against VMS!
Message-ID: <9843@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 15:07:49 GMT
References: <1636@tulum.UUCP> <3168@phri.UUCP> <497@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: ABI

In article <497@taux01.UUCP> yuval@taux01.UUCP (Gideon Yuval) writes:
>[...]
>The new ABI standard, which is supposed to be the Unix standard for object-code
>distribution, is (a variation of) COFF for SPARC. How much hardware-indpendence
>is going to survive the changeover to ABI?

  I see that there is going to be a 386 standard, too, and
perhaps others. The binary standard is only within the systems
of one CPU family.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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