NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/lang/c/16892

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!daimi!u920496
From: [e-mail] (Hans Erik Martino Hansen)
Subject: portable UNIX programs
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Summary: distribuate applications as pseudo machineindependent assemblercode
Keywords: binary port unix
Sender: [e-mail] (Hans Erik Martino Hansen)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:47:44 GMT
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I have often wondered why software packages for Unix, was
distribuated as binary code. Why not distribuate it as
in a machine independant format. It is obvious that no software
company wants their source code accessable for everybody.
But if a standard was made for a sort of machine independent
pseudo assemblercode, which could be compiled on any
UNIX-installation then Unix became the true machine independent
operating system, which was intended in the first place.

Of course there would be a need for a more strict definition of
the Unix operation system, compared to today. But imagine
the advantages. If at the same time Unix became
a smaller system, it would suddenly become very competetive
to DOS/Windows, Machintosch and other microcomputer operating
systems. And perhaps in the end become the one and only OS.

Please comment my idea, thanks.

Erik M. Hansen            |Email: [e-mail]
Trige Parkvej 9, ST 1     |I study Computer Science at the
DK-8380  Trige            |Aarhus University, Denmark
Denmark, Europe           |"Information wants to be free"
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