Sienkiew@louie.udel.edu (10/24/85)
It would be particularly useful to have binary compatiblity in cases where more than one version of Unix runs on the same machine, not just the same cpu. It would save a lot of time converting things from Xenix to Venix, or whatever. As has been pointed out already, if they are all binary compatible, you can just pop in a disk and run the program instead of look for a brand-A disk to replace your brand-B one. I think it would be neat if you could have some machine-independent form to use for distributing software, so then I don't even have to get a new copy for my XYZ processor based machine. Of course that would be too much like giving out source code... Mark. P.S. Anybody heard much of Penguin Software recently?