From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:09:36 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] -mpm Again In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <86299bd7f0d182c48e6e82e732ee5914@comcast.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 703c5afc-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Hm.. I guess this means 2e binaries run on 4e? How much > compatibility is there between the different editions? > I guess not having shared libraries pays good dividends here. Enough has changed that more complicated programs would be a problem, but pm is not much more complicated than cat as far as system calls go. Russ