26 Mar
2018
26 Mar
'18
9:53 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:41:15PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
On 3/26/2018 12:19 PM, Paul Winalski wrote:
Yeah, Sun was very good about that. You got smacked if you broke compat.
Unix, on the
other hand, has always struck me as being less concerned with backward
compatibility and more about innovation and experimentation.
For Sun, it was quite
the contrary.
It was normal to run binaries from SunOS on Solaris. For the longest time,
the "xv" binary I used on SPARC hardware was compiled on SunOS. It's even
an
X-windows application, and the libraries work.