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From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: changed a.out format and gdb 4.10 under NetBDS-0.9
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Date: 27 Aug 93 18:22:32 GMT
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mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:

>1) It makes executables an average of 4064 bytes smaller.

>2) It makes *NULL core dump rather than just give strange results
>(which caught quite a number of bugs).

>3) It's essentially the same as Sun and BSDI; it's hardly new.

For these same reasons Linux now has support for the QMAGIC format.
It's a worthwhile change.  Now, NetBSD still supports normal ZMAGIC,
doesn't it?

>   Why it's not possible to concentrate all the energy to ONE
>   operating system?
>Because everyone has a different idea of what they want to do.

It seems that there's enough effort to go around, and I think
having as many flavors of UNIX as we do is a good thing.  We
only have to make sure that Linux and *BSD can benefit from
each other.

--
Robert Sanders
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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