"Austin Ziegler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 8/21/07, Eric Hodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I think Solaris 8 has the platform solaris2.8 and so-forth. AFAIK, 8
>> and 9 aren't necessarily compatible the same way OpenBSD 4.0 and 4.1
>> aren't necessarily compatible.
>
> Sun guarantees forward compatibility for an architecture; something
> built on Solaris 8 will run on 9 and 10. Something built on 10 won't
> run on 8 or 9.
>
> -austin
Right. In an emergency, I once brought up a 15-year-old version of
FrameMaker that was last used on SPARCStation 1s under SunOS 4.1
("Solaris 1") on my Blade 2500 (UltraSPARC IV, Solaris 8). Including
flexLM.
Steve
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