Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:39:45 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) Message-ID: <199601040939.KAA13231@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <5130.820701739@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 3, 96 12:42:19 pm
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I don't have any personal antipathy against ELF (I must have missed > Joerg's original post - I've only seen references in follow-ups) I > just have an antipathy against: > > 1. Adopting new technologies for the apparent sake of it, and > especially when they're going to be *really painful* in the > transition. We could learn from Linux. I don't see why one has to make it that painful. If it can't be done without breaking backwards compatibility, i'm against it. (Read this: a.out binaries have to run in the new environment as well, at the only added cost of another shlib that's bloating the RAM.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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