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From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Compiling and linking code from different places in the file system
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:47:32 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2018-03-23, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>> By Unix places I meant places since then that use Unix or Unix-like
>> systems and that sell applications for use by people with those same
>> systems.
>
> Well, if you talk about unix applications being sold, then they would
> most often come in the form of a bunch of .o files, to be linked on the
> target systems by using a makefile!

In later times there was alos IBCS (*) Linux supported it for a while, and afaik
it was installed in early kernel 2.0 times.

(*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Binary_Compatibility_Standard