begin quoting Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. as of Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:58:05PM -0800: > On Mar 24, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > >Here at work we still have some binaries from HP-UX 6 that run on > >HP-UX 11. Now thats amazing. > > Cool. VMS and VM/MVS/TSO/<insert magic IBM acronym> are similar. > > Now *those* are goals worth emulating. Yes.
> Heck, they probably aren't even that hard anymore. Using something > like bochs you could probably kick off a captive instance of > Linux/FreeBSD/etc to actually execute using a model of really old > hardware. > > Now, *that* would be backward compatibility. Install a new FreeBSD 5 > box. Take a memory image of the old machine; transfer memory image to > captive emulator on new machine; press continue. Heh. It makes for a nice sandbox as well. > Hmmmm. The only problem with that is the lack of open documentation > about the hardware. Interesting, I wonder when that is going to hit > critical mass. I think that Sun was aiming for that with the JVM. Define a virtual machine that is "good enough", and run applications in _that_. -Stewart "Disk is cheap, but not quite _that_ cheap. Yet." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
