[COLUG] Binary Compatibility - was Open Solaris and the Borg

[steve.currie at jpmchase.com]

Not a very long time for binary compatiblity.  IBM mainframe has be binary
compatible since 1969 - almost 40 years.


<<Do you realize I can take a
binary that I compiled on SunOS 4 (last released in '92/93) and still
run it on a Solaris 10 system?
Or, even if you think that is a little too far fetched, how about
guaranteed compatibility for Solaris 2.6
and later to Solaris 10, 8 years of backwards compatibility.  I couldn't
even upgrade from Fedora
Core 4 to Fedora Core 5 without having several things break.  Linux 2.4
to 2.6 was a completely
incompatible change.


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