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  2. Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!fj05+
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.intel
  5. Message-ID: <ofA0UcK00WB20KTFAO@andrew.cmu.edu>
  6. Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:55:04 -0500 
  7. From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
  8. Subject: Re: RISC defined! Was Re: 486SLC chip.... what is it?
  9. In-Reply-To: <1992Dec16.025659.16572@eng.umd.edu>
  10. References: <1992Dec11.155653.8469@ptdcs2.intel.com> <1992Dec13.150243.26083@eng.umd.edu> <Uf_tvJW00WB7Q8SnFj@andrew.cmu.edu>
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  14. russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
  15. > In article <Uf_tvJW00WB7Q8SnFj@andrew.cmu.edu> fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu
  16. > (Faisal Nameer Jawdat) writes:
  17. > >Through the wonders of unix, wherein the same code was for the most
  18. > >part still usable, with substantial speed improvement.
  19. >
  20. > Same SOURCE.  You can't run Sun 3 binaries on a Sparc, though.
  21.  
  22. Obviously not, but same source code.  And for that matter, very few
  23. people with unix machines don't a) know how to recompile things, or b)
  24. have someone around to recompile things for them.
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  27.  
  28. -- faisal jawdat                  | "Certainly the game is rigged.
  29. email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu       | Don't let that stop you;
  30. if mail handler barfs             | if you don't bet, you can't win." 
  31. fj05@andrew.cmu.edu               |        -Lazarus Long
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