Re: Gnu and NeXT

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From: Fred Fish
Date: Fri, 01 May 1992 21:25

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In article <193@colossus.mct-aria> allan@mct.uucp ( System Guru) writes:
|In article <MIB.92Apr27202312@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu| mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
||In article <1992Apr27.214246.9945@nntp.uoregon.edu| haertel@euclid.uucp (Mike Haertel) writes:
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||   In article <MIB.92Apr27134045@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu| mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
||   |I think you're right, but since the preferred object file format will
||   |eventually by Mach-O on GNU, it will eventually be supported.
||
||   OSF Mach-O is different from CMU/NeXT Mach-O.
||   Last I heard GNU was planning on OSF Mach-O.
||
||Yes, that's correct.  However, I suspect that CMU Mach-O support will
||be added at the same time, or that NeXT will switch.

Where can one find documentation on Mach-O?

Is there any written rationale as to why Mach-O was chosen as the preferred
object file format?  (Just curious...)

-Fred
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