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> Pleeeeeease, why can't we keep a.out support in 2.1?  Most of us don't have
> RISC cpu's yet, and many ELF things _do_ run more slowly on my 486 and 386.

You need ELF to compile, but you can still run a.out programs.
(or so I interpreted Linus's message)

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