Gabriel Sechan wrote: > >From: "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Darren New wrote: > >> > >> Um, sure. Show me a 10-year-old Linux program or Mac program that runs > >> without recompiling? > > > >I can't make it to QUITE ten years. > > > I can, if you want to include commercial unixes. At my last job we had a > binary only source control db that was originally made for HP-UX 6. It > still worked on HPUX11. Impressive really.
I want to get a /bin/ls from Solaris 2.0 circa Jul. 92, and run it on a Solaris 10 circa Jan 2005 just to see if it will work. That is when Sun went from BSD to SVR4. Supposedly, backward compatibility was one of the key features. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
