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From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Big win for BSD/OS compatibility 
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On Sun, 24 Sep 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> I do, but it's a cast-iron &*^%$#@!!  BSDI apparently changed crt0.o
> fairly substantially but not the magic number.  Now explain to me how
> we're supposed to tell the difference and be selectively compatible? :-(

    Well, how does BSD/OS 2.0 stay compatible with its own 1.1
binaries?
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Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"