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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!john.hendrikx
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 22:59:33 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: What the new Amiga-OS *must* have
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
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- In a message of 22 Mar 96 Hans Guijt wrote to All:
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- >> - A fat binary format is badly needed. Not only that it could hold both
- >> 680x0 and PowerPC-Code, the most important thing that is
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- HG> A fat binary format is *exactly* what we do not need.
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- What would you suggest which is equally simple to do?
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- HG> - If you have a 680x0 machine you waste space by storing PPC code.
- HG> - If you have a PPC machine you waste space by storing 680x0 code.
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- HG> Just why do so many think fat binaries are good? Because 'they' have
- HG> them?
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- Just strip the unneeded code from the binary using a special stripper program
- which is available for the macs.
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- Grtz John
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