On Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:09:13 -0400 (EDT) 
 bcolbert@aac.accurate-automation.com (Brad Colbert) wrote:

 >    I am curious, what is the binary format from 1.0 (not -current)?
 >    Is it an ELF or COFF or something different?  

Most NetBSD architectures use a.out.  Exceptions are the alpha and pmax.

Our a.out format is slightly "special".  Our magic numbers are kept in 
network byte-order and contain the "traditional" magic numbers 
({O,N,Z}MAGIC), a machine-id, and flags.  See <sys/exec_aout.h> for 
details.

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