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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:17:05 +0100
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Once upon a time (on 25 Apr 97 at 19:30) Pierre Phaneuf said:

> On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> 
> > No problem ;-) But why would Intel bother with ELF (asking just out of
> > curiosity). Speaking of ELF - would it be possible to create 16-bit shared
> > libraries in that format?
> 
> Don't know about why Intel put this in... But I think there is no
> practical way that I know of to create 16-bit shared libraries, in
Why? And what about NE OS/2 and Win3.xx DLLs?

> whatever format. And if it *is* possible, I guess it could be done with
> ELF...
We should support such a thing, IMO.
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