There are old SVR4 Intel apps, during the days of the merging of AT&T UNIX, NCR UNIX, and Solaris Intel. Some binaries would be copied back and forth with impunity.
Solaris compatibility goes back a long way under Intel - it helps to come from the Telco environment to understand the impacts. On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Personal <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that removal from illumos-gate and into a special legacy gate > would be appropriate for these packages. I suspect only SPARC users have > binaries this old. Intel users are more likely to have newer code as Intel > Solaris only became popular after 2.6 or so. > > Sent from my iPad > > On May 6, 2012, at 2:57 AM, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 5 May 2012, at 16:36, Peter Tribble wrote: > >>> Binary compatibility goes back a long way - I use 20+ year old > binaries on a daily basis. > >> > >> Purely for voyeuristic curiosity, what binaries are they? I can't think > of anything that old I own or use on a regular basis, except perhaps (by a > year or two) my molars. > > > > My favourite is a copy of microemacs I use daily. It's tiny, > > incredibly quick to start, and has worked for more years than > > I care to remember. It was an antique with a long and illustrious > > history when I first met it back in 1994. > > > > That's just me. The company I work for runs code that old that > > is accessed by paying customers. Frightening, no? 15 years old > > as mentioned at the start of this thread takes you back to Solaris > > 2.6 (1997); I have that still running (not by choice, I hasten to add...) > > > > -- > > -Peter Tribble > > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > illumos-discuss > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/22003744-45f01c1f > > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175845-b97465aa > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
