Thursday August 12, 2004 Talk about backward compatibility...
On the newsgroup comp.unix.solaris, I've encountered the following posting:>MANY applications from the SunOS 4.x days will still work, >without recompilation, on Solaris 10. WordPerfect 5.1 for SunOS worked on my SunBlade 150 with Solaris 9. Took a while to eat all those floppies though....and here SunOS refers to SunOS 4.x (since Solaris 2 is SunOS 5.x + etc).
When I sit down and thought about this, it wasn't too surprising but it still was amazing that our Solaris folks can keep the backward compatibility for over 10 year and across the major OS version upgrade - after all, 4.x to 5.x jump was a really big change.
BTW, if you're not familiar with SunOS 4.x, you may want to check this link for which SunOS version was when and which SunOS is which Solaris, etc.
Kudos to our Solaris folks !
( Aug 12 2004, 09:16:09 AM PDT ) Permalink
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