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- From: nc00@eurotherm.co.uk (Neil Corlett)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Destiny X Dell, Esix, Microport etc.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.081222.14689@eurotherm.co.uk>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 08:12:22 GMT
- References: <14rvigINNsb8@agate.berkeley.edu> <2A740945.6FC7@telly.on.ca> <1hGjKH#1z9QBx5GJkHCBBT8zc3lwFPV=esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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- esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
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- >In <2A740945.6FC7@telly.on.ca> Evan Leibovitch wrote:
- >> Are there any comments on the net, based on the available knowledge,
- >> about the plusses and minuses of Solaris 2.0 vs. System V R4.2, from the
- >> viewpoint of a poptential source licensee?
- >>
- >> Will they be able to run each other's binaries? How about ODT apps??
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- >Don't know about the latter, but I think it's clear that the answer to the
- >former is `yes'. Both support iBCS2.
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- If your Solaris 2.0 application uses threads or makes use of NeWS, you might
- be out of luck if you move the binaries to SVR4.2. This observation is from reading the magazines :-)
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- Neil
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