Re: GNU OS (was Re: Alternatives to Motif)

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From: Joe Wells
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 04:19

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mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Michael K. Gschwind) writes:

   In article <1991Mar6.171244.751@rwwa.COM> witr@rwwa.COM (Robert W. Withrow) writes:
   >[...] In
   >the case of 386s, assuming that GNU will support ELF images (as I
   >gather it will and should) 

   I doubt that the FSF will want to choose ELF for all GNU OS versions.

Actually, the FSF has a piece of software (whose name I have forgotten)
that will support all the common object code standards.  So you will be
able to use ELF, COFF, Mach-O, a.out, etc.

-- 
Enjoy,

Joe Wells <jbw@bu.edu>

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