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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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