Sun has garunteed binary compatability with Solaris for a while now. They claim that 
any binary that runs on a 2.6 system will run on any newer version of Solaris. Is that 
what you're worried about with legacy applications?

Sean

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:43:38AM -0500, Toal, Dave wrote:
> 
> Good morning,
> 
>       I'm looking for some basic sanity-check info,
> supporting some legacy apps on more recent hardware.
> What I've read so far says the sparc III's will only
> run 2.8; I'm wondering if anyone's had any experience
> with that.  
> 
>       The boxes in question are v880's.  Booting
> one from a 2.6 cd failed with a "can't open" error on
> the sun4u kernel.
> 
> --
> Dave Toal
> T&T, N. Quincy MA
> 
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