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Re: Issues in porting NEOS to DECMIPS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu May 2 14:59:34 1991

Date: Thu,  2 May 1991 14:58:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, geer@crl.dec.com, koolkin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9105020638.AA21416@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU>

Well Marc, it was portable until a single compiler company introduced a
totally non flexible new aspect to object files.  It may end up that
MIPS has made it impossible for ANYONE to have dynamic linking if their
objects use that chunk of memory.

-wdc

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