From: "Paweł Lasek" <pawel.lasek@gmail.com>
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 ...
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:19:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f3897940601201419y16e87e8asb150a96269730509@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7570b7bdfb0e101f924630bbac0ed80e@plan9.bell-labs.com>
On 1/20/06, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com <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
It comes from the fact that some of the code is not-so-portable -
OpenOffice 1x being popular example (don't know about 2.0), as it
didn't compile on amd64 (some bugs in the code, remember, it comes
back from StarDivision and OS/2 :D). There's a lot more of it,
thaknfully limited mostly to closed-source software.
M$ is having the same trouble, having to supply 386 IE for basically
every architecture NT is working on (From what I remember, 386 IE is
included in Alpha, IA-64 and AMD64 ones) :)
--
Paweł Lasek
"Once a hitokiri, always a hitokiri. This will never change" - Jine-Ei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-20 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-19 17:54 Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-19 20:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-19 22:28 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-20 11:58 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2006-01-20 16:08 ` jmk
2006-01-20 16:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-01-20 22:19 ` Paweł Lasek [this message]
2006-01-21 4:01 ` jmk
2006-01-21 4:06 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-21 4:26 ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-21 5:09 ` jmk
2006-01-21 6:20 ` uriel
2006-01-21 8:36 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-21 7:42 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-21 13:09 ` Brantley Coile
2006-01-21 16:37 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2006-01-21 18:49 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-21 19:43 ` David Leimbach
2006-01-21 21:13 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-21 13:11 ` Brantley Coile
2006-01-20 17:33 ` David Leimbach
2006-01-20 17:36 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-20 17:53 ` jmk
2006-01-20 18:10 ` Dave Lukes
2006-01-20 18:38 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-01-21 19:29 ` Marina Brown
2006-01-20 20:14 ` Ronald G Minnich
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