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[Gideon Yuval]

> 	The strongest single factor that Unix has going for it (in my
> opinion) is that it runs on zillions of different kinds of hardware.  We
> used to run on pdp-11's and vaxes.  Now we run mostly on Suns.  Tommorow,
> who knows?  Maybe we'll buy a Sequent or an Alliant.  Maybe PC's.  The
> common theme is that they are all Unix, making porting program and user
> skills orders of magnitude easier than moving from one OS to another each

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?

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