On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Trevin Beattie wrote:

> I realize this may be too late to change, but could somebody explain to me
> *why* we are changing our binary format?  It seems to be a lot of trouble,
> and I don't see the advantage.  (In fact, ELF is one of the reasons I
> haven't switched to FreeBSD.)

  IIRC, the main reason was that everyone else uses ELF now.  NetBSD had
to do most of the maintinance of the a.out tools while others do most of
the work on the ELF tools.

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@pgh.net