>NeXT has this feature, and they are already "quad fat". The same physical
>binaries now run on original NeXT hardware (motorola), 486+ machines,
>HP pa-risc machines, and SUN sparc machines. The main motivation is less
>filesystem duplication in a heterogenous-architecture environment. For a
>large cluster of machines, the extra individual weight more than makes up 
>for itself in terms of admin and fileserving from a single source.

Do their compiler suites support producing the "quad fat" file in one
compulation ?

Marc B.

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