Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!super!rminnich
From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Software Distribution
Message-ID: <692@super.ORG>
Date: 2 Sep 88 17:59:16 GMT
References: <891@taux01.UUCP> <127@taux02.UUCP>
Sender: uucp@super.ORG
Reply-To: rminnich@metropolis.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich)
Organization: Supercomputing Research Center, Lanham, MD
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In article <127@taux02.UUCP> chaim@taux02.UUCP (Chaim Bendelac) writes:
>In article <891@taux01.UUCP>, chaim@taux01.UUCP (I) wondered:
>>     ...if there is no room for another standard layer, specially 
>>     designed for software DISTRIBUTION.  Imagine an Intermediate Program 
>>     Representation ... language independent, architecture independent...
OK, everybody out there who remembers the IEEE attempt
(what, circa 1978-9?) to promulgate a standard assembly language,
raise your middle hand. :-)
  I don't know about this, given that after 31 years i can't even
get fortran programs to move easily. 
  Maybe we should see how far the ISO-oids get with their structured
data streams??
ron