re: svr4, again

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Christos Zoulas writes:
> In article <3AF3B7C6-D34E-471D-8CF8-A411E903271C%me.com@localhost>,
> Jason Thorpe  <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:
> >While I agree that it’s not exactly difficult to maintain the a.out
> >exec package, I do wonder if there is anyone out there actually running
> >ancient a.out binaries.
> 
> Well, I still have a lisp from 0.9 :-) Anyway if we get rid of a.out we
> might as well get rid of compat <= 1.5...

netbsd had ELF ports before 1.5.  i forget when, but at
least alpha and maybe mips were ELF before i386/sparc's
conversion from a.out in 1.5.

IIRC.


.mrg.