> On Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:57:26 -0600 
>  Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote:
> 
>  > They do (or at least did).  They also did VAX -> ALPHA as well (maybe
>  > that was just VAX/VMS -> ALPHA/OpenVMS).  And it just worked.  Pretty
>  > amazing.
> 
> Actually, "scary" is the term I'd use, but... :-)
> 
> I always prefered the fat binary approach that NeXT took :-)

that's ... harder to do when you're creating the new architecture 10
years after people have built their binaries.

fat binaries are useless to users, unless they're building new fat
binaries themselves, in which case they're useless in this
situation...



cgd