Sorry to reply to my own post, but this...

http://soldc.sun.com/tech_topics/compatibility/

is what I'm talking about. Yes, you may have to run some test, but it's binary 
compatibility, just like they advertise.

Sean

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:02:01PM -0500, Sean Lutner wrote:
> 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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