From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 18:40:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA29394 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:40:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from bacchus.eng.umd.edu (bacchus.eng.umd.edu [129.2.94.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA29287 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mocha.eng.umd.edu (mocha.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.16]) by bacchus.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id VAA21747; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:36:01 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by mocha.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.6.4) id VAA12814; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:35:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:35:59 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@mocha.eng.umd.edu To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Terry Lambert , J Wunsch , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) In-Reply-To: <5130.820701739@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I don't have any personal antipathy against ELF (I must have missed > Joerg's original post - I've only seen references in follow-ups) I > just have an antipathy against: > > 1. Adopting new technologies for the apparent sake of it, and > especially when they're going to be *really painful* in the > transition. > > 2. Adopting new technologies before they're ready. Would anyone > mind just a little if we waited for Linux to go to their second > tools rev in their position as ELF-leader? :-) > Jordan, I can understand your first argument, but since SVR4 has been running ELF for quite some time now, well, the second argument is a little harder to see, for me. Does ELF really still qualify as new technology? > Jordan > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: