Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!Sienkiew@louie.udel.edu From: Sienkiew@louie.udel.edu Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re binary compatability Message-ID: <2374@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 04:41:18 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2374 Posted: Thu Oct 24 04:41:18 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:32:27 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 20 It would be particularly useful to have binary compatiblity in cases where more than one version of Unix runs on the same machine, not just the same cpu. It would save a lot of time converting things from Xenix to Venix, or whatever. As has been pointed out already, if they are all binary compatible, you can just pop in a disk and run the program instead of look for a brand-A disk to replace your brand-B one. I think it would be neat if you could have some machine-independent form to use for distributing software, so then I don't even have to get a new copy for my XYZ processor based machine. Of course that would be too much like giving out source code... Mark. P.S. Anybody heard much of Penguin Software recently?