From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:41:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1aef71d4-0096-9666-c5ce-d9bbe44f4cd2@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VSQpX+wid5_nE3OUjTCJQ2njY+hWwBQQDXamu65HUqa9A@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/26/2018 12:19 PM, Paul Winalski wrote:
> 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.
Even in Solaris 10, it still runs:
-bash-3.00$ ./xv.sparc
ld.so.1: xv.sparc: warning: /usr/4lib/libX11.so.4.3: has older revision
than expected 10
ld.so.1: xv.sparc: warning: /usr/4lib/libc.so.1.9: has older revision
than expected 160
-bash-3.00$ file xv.sparc
xv.sparc: Sun demand paged SPARC executable dynamically linked
-bash-3.00$ uname -a
SunOS redacted 5.10 Generic_120011-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
This has been deprecated as of Solaris 11, supposedly. Backwards
compatibility for Solaris binaries is also a "thing".
art k.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-26 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.21.1521314548.3788.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-03-17 20:14 ` [TUHS] " Paul McJones
2018-03-17 22:27 ` Steve Johnson
2018-03-22 21:05 ` [TUHS] long lived programs (was " Bakul Shah
2018-03-22 21:35 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 19:28 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-23 19:44 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-23 21:23 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 21:36 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-23 22:02 ` Steve Johnson
2018-03-26 13:43 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-03-26 16:19 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-26 16:41 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2018-03-26 19:53 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-27 1:08 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-26 19:04 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-27 1:21 ` Steve Johnson
2018-03-27 1:46 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 10:43 ` Tim Bradshaw
[not found] ` <CAC20D2P1CZwaD0uJpMhWg11muDeH9rEn3X+AUjXvwMKsNjs7ng@mail.gmail.com>
2018-03-26 0:53 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Clem Cole
2018-03-23 2:53 [TUHS] " Doug McIlroy
2018-03-23 18:27 ` Bakul Shah
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