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<h3 class="section">1.1 History</h3>
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<p>One spur behind BFD was the desire, on the part of the GNU 960 team at
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Intel Oregon, for interoperability of applications on their COFF and
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b.out file formats. Cygnus was providing GNU support for the team, and
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was contracted to provide the required functionality.
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<p>The name came from a conversation David Wallace was having with Richard
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Stallman about the library: RMS said that it would be quite hard—David
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said “BFD”. Stallman was right, but the name stuck.
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<p>At the same time, Ready Systems wanted much the same thing, but for
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different object file formats: IEEE-695, Oasys, Srecords, a.out and 68k
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coff.
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<p>BFD was first implemented by members of Cygnus Support; Steve
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Chamberlain (<code>sac@cygnus.com</code>), John Gilmore
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(<code>gnu@cygnus.com</code>), K. Richard Pixley (<code>rich@cygnus.com</code>)
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and David Henkel-Wallace (<code>gumby@cygnus.com</code>).
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