Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:44:34 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support |
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > The main historic use case I've heard of was running Netscape > > Navigator on Alpha Linux, before there was an open source version. > > Doing this today to connect to the open internet is probably > > a bit pointless, but there may be other use cases. > > The _really_ main version was that I decided to make my life easier > for the initial alpha port by trying to run basic (tested) OSF/1 > binaries directly. > > Netscape may have been one of the binaries people actually ended up > using, but it's probably not a reason any more, since the internet has > moved past that anyway.
Yeah, the alphas on the server side, powering AltaVista, are also long gone...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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