Re: Debian on a 386? Unlikely. (was: ramblings about old hardware, gzip, bz2, and pentium opts)
Joel Klecker writes:
> At 00:09 +0100 1999-12-08, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >one interesting alternative would be to use fat binaries. This worked
> >very well for Openstep 4.x (by NeXT). The modifications to binutils
> >and gcc are available from Apple, but someone would need to integrate
> >them upstream ... I didn't look how much of this is already used in
> >the Darwin project.
>
> This won't really work, since we don't have the "app wrapper" stuff.
>
> In Openstep, the GUI apps live in a directory called foo.app, "fat"
> binaries work by putting more than one "real" binary in there.
No, that's wrong. They live in the same file and it's not limited to
GUI apps.
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- From: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
- Re: Debian on a 386? Unlikely. (was: ramblings about old hardware, gzip, bz2, and pentium opts)
- From: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>