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In article <558@oracle.UUCP>, rbradbur@hqpyr1 (Robert Bradbury) discusses:

	Interfaces that support software portability

	Application binary interfaces

These are two separate issues, distinct and different.  Clearly one
can be for the former without affecting one's views on the latter.

Thus when Robert says
	We have dozens of people who do nothing but take
	many megabytes of source code, compile it on yet
	another UNIX box and spend weeks figuring out what
	that manufacturer did not manage to get right in
	his port of UNIX.
he is arguing for the former, and when he says
	when we start to get really frustrated is when you
	release different versions of UNIX for the *SAME
	BOX* which cannot run the same binary programs.
	(Are you listening DEC?  MIPSCO?)
he is arguing against the latter.  No, that's not a typo: he may
think he's arguing for the latter, but the inability of machine
architectures to specify program compatibility across OS releases
turns his point against the latter.

-- Jon
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