>Subject: Re: ELF and Multiboot questions 
>Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 03:08:37 -0600
>From: "Erik M. Theisen" <etheisen@teclink.net>

>The ancient nature of the a.out format is not compatible at any level with
>newer stuff like ELF.

Since a.out came first, I would say it is ELF that is not compatible.

>Yes, pk did a wonderfull job on the a.out stuff, but maybe it's time to move
>forward.

Since ELF suffers from the rather severe brain-damage of not providing
something as basic as a magic number to differentiate between flavors,
switching to it would be moving backward.  If I wanted Linux, I'd be
running it.

Max