From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:53:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180326195303.GM6072@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1aef71d4-0096-9666-c5ce-d9bbe44f4cd2@kilonet.net>
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:41:15PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, Sun was very good about that. You got smacked if you broke compat.
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[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
2018-03-26 19:53 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
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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