On 6/18/07, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
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> Just try to find a 1998 C/C++ program that runs without recompiling on a
> 2007 OS. Games are your best shot, and even most of them don't.
Any statically-linked circa 1998 C/C++ program.
For what it's worth, I have a C program that was originally written in
1980 for DECUS C on PDP11 systems.
Over the years I have migrated it to Ultrix on microVAX, SunOS and
Solaris on SPARC, RedHat on Alpha, (binary runs fine with Debian or
Fedora Core), and RedHat and Fedora on x86.
The Alpha version had one source change in 2000, and was compiled that
year. (new Alpha computer). For x86 the sources are the same. I
made one source change in 2003 to cope with input files of more than
9999 lines. Compilation was in 2003 when I got my first x86 computer.
Still going strong.
I don't have any 1998 compiled versions to try because I don't have
any compatible hardware that old. Well, one of these days I will get
around to Solaris 10 on a SPARCstation and see if the old Solaris
version still works.
carl
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