The Sinclair QL Forum

I seriously ask myself what he is trying to achieve with his answers.

XorA wrote:

NormanDunbar wrote:

Brane2 wrote:THis is why Linux has elf - "eXecutable and Linkable File" format.

Invented in the early 1990s. QL invented in the early 1980s.

I remember Linux pre ELF

a.out format for the win!

The ELF format wasn't taken up by most UNIXs until the mid-90s. Linux just followed the crowd.

Until running executables with dynamic linking arrived there was no need for the extra resource overhead it used and the run-time linker systems required.

Anyway, where were we?

Oh yes, ST-BASIC... IMHO Metacomco's programers merely liked the window layout from the QL. There's definitely no RED or BLACK backgrounds though and the BASIC is very much a Microsoft BASIC derived dialect.

I guess that's the thread finished.

stephen_usher wrote:a.out format for the win!

That's the one I was trying to remember, thanks.

stephen_usher wrote:I guess that's the thread finished.

It appears complete. But you never know.


Cheers,
Norm.