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 > > > > > > --- > > Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. > > Mail administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. > > -- > Sean Lutner | www: http://www.rentul.net > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gpg: http://www.rentul.net/sean.sig > > "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein > > > --- > Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. > Mail administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. -- Sean Lutner | www: http://www.rentul.net e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gpg: http://www.rentul.net/sean.sig "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
