Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Did providing SunOS 4 binary compatibility slow the adoption of
> providing Solaris 2 native binaries?   (I don't know - it was before
> my time - I suspect it's just part of the cost of providing
> compatibility.)

If there was a working compatibility environment for SunView based GUI
binaries, it could have caused the transition towards Solaris 2 to massively
speed up, in case the general performance problem for Solaris < 2.3 did not 
exist (speaking for the second biggest Sun OEM in that time).

Jörg

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