From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180601200813i2ad2d1c9q1788a76b54900b9d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:13:19 -0700 From: andrey mirtchovski To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ... In-Reply-To: <7570b7bdfb0e101f924630bbac0ed80e@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <9ab217670601200358n36c0ebe0p@mail.gmail.com> <7570b7bdfb0e101f924630bbac0ed80e@plan9.bell-labs.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: e1461774-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 1/20/06, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > Compatibility mode? Why? Surely you just recompile the programme for > the target machine, you have the source, after all. A minute, tops. > > --jim for a while back then the globus toolkit didn't work in 64-bit mode on the opterons. one needed to compile it 32-bit which meant installing a second set of everything, including the X11 libraries :) on every node.