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[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <497 at taux01.UUCP> yuval at 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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