Re: Curious about free Unixes and ABI (BSD, Linux, GNU)

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From: David Megginson
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1992 16:23

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I remember that the hurd documentation claimed it would be binary
compatible with BSD on at least some machines. Definitely a worth aim,
but don't tell them to do it so that retailers can sell programs
without source code, or they will _definitely_ change their minds ;-)


David
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