On 1/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Compatibility mode? Why? Surely you just recompile the programme for > the target machine, you have the source, after all. A minute, tops. > > --jim
It comes from the fact that some of the code is not-so-portable - OpenOffice 1x being popular example (don't know about 2.0), as it didn't compile on amd64 (some bugs in the code, remember, it comes back from StarDivision and OS/2 :D). There's a lot more of it, thaknfully limited mostly to closed-source software. M$ is having the same trouble, having to supply 386 IE for basically every architecture NT is working on (From what I remember, 386 IE is included in Alpha, IA-64 and AMD64 ones) :) -- Paweł Lasek "Once a hitokiri, always a hitokiri. This will never change" - Jine-Ei
