From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 5 14:36:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sun-1.crystalsugar.com (unknown [207.0.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A4EA15947 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 14:35:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danderso@crystalsugar.com) Received: from sun-1.crystalsugar.com by sun-1.crystalsugar.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA08422; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:35:56 -0500 Received: from mail (mail.crystalsugar.com [207.0.65.31]) by ns.crystalsugar.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA29765 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:35:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from JCEDO-Message_Server by mail with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 05 May 1999 16:33:47 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5 Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 16:33:28 -0500 From: "Dale Anderson" To: Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org So, your saying that FreeBSD can read in the binary and begin executing = machine instructions without any processing in between, or is the kernel = doing some sort of interpertation of the instructions to make then run = properly????? I'm just not that familiar with "Linux Binary Compatibility.= " >>> "Jordan K. Hubbard" 05/05/99 04:27PM >>> > I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "Not bright enough to = understan d ????" What us IT people mean, is that running an application under = emulati on means it will run a little slower, as that middle abstraction layer has = to e mulate and that takes CPU cycles. Another reason is that if you talk to = some s Like I said in another posting, "emulation" is not the correct term to be using here then since no "middle abstraction layer" is being used in the case of Linux binary compatibility (see, there's the new phrase you should be using right there :). - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message