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From: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:59:22 -0500

> The patent mentions only one prior art:
>
> "One prior art attempt to provide a method for providing a single
> application for a variety of architectures and formats is the ANDF
> system, developed by OSF. This is an architecture neutral binary
> format. A disadvantage of this scheme is that it requires conversion
> to the native architecture at installation time."
>
> I don't think there is anything similar to Apple's fat binary or
> universal binary -- a single executable that can be executed on
> different processor families.

A variant of the Sparc SILO boot loader, called TILO, was
doing this with Sparc Linux kernel images 15 or so years ago.

It packs a 32-bit and a 64-bit Linux kernel into one blob and figures
out which one to actually boot once it figures out what kind of
machine it is executing on.


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