Quadra 660AV what's with the "PowerPC" label? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Jun 2016

On Thu, 6/16/16, Sean Conner <spc at conman.org> wrote:
...
  It was thus said that the Great Liam Proven once
stated:
  And Plan 9 went one better, and (mostly)
eliminated that nasty old
 unsafe mess, C, and it eliminated native binaries and brought
 platform-neutral binaries to the game.  
? Um ... what?? Plan 9 is written in C.? And they still use binaries, just
 fat binaries (that is, the binary contains multiple code and data segments
 for each supported architecture0). 
I suspect he was referring to Inferno when talking about the
byte code executables.  But Plan 9 doesn't use fat binaries.
It keeps each architecture's binaries in a directory named for
the architecture.  Then one uses the union mounts to build
a /bin that has the appropriate mix of binaries and shell scripts
for the machine hosting that process.

BLS