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by lproven 1145 days ago
BSD = Berkeley Software/System Distro.

iBCS = Intel Binary Compatibility Standard. iBCS2 = iBCS v2.

Not the same thing or even related.
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macdice 1145 days ago
... but the BSDs did have support for SystemV binaries, through modules compat_svr4 and compat_ibcs2, so the grand parent comment made perfect sense to me. Not sure why there were two and I don't plan to go down that rabbit hole today, but perhaps due to SVR4 vs SVR3 differences, and ELF vs COFF, shrug.
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lproven 1144 days ago
Fair point! I am not so familiar with them, but I am sure you're right.
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