hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) (06/20/85)
In the old days, one could have several forms of a program on punched cards. Instead of having source or assembler or whatever punched on the card in the normal Hollerith code, one could choose the "binary" format, in which each position on the card represented a 0 or a 1 by being blank or punched. The program in that form (usually a direct transcription of how it appears in memory) was then called a "binary deck" or sometimes just a "binary". Therefore when I read "binary image", I think of a memory image (i.e., dump) in binary format. I didn't interpret it as an image (picture) in which each pixel could only take on one of two possible values. --henry schaffer