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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:56:16 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
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On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:44:43PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Are we still reverse-engineering for interoperability when we
> essentially want to duplicate a piece of software with identical
> purpose? 8-)

There's not just x86* and ia64 out there, interoperability with
different archs isn't possible today.