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- From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Xenix (tm) emulation for Linux almost works : -)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.032215.29829@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 03:22:15 GMT
- Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (System PRIVILEGED Account)
- Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 22:21:53 GMT
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- SLS is a cross section of Linux frozen at about .96c. It looks like SLS
- will not move to .97, because Linus announced .98 will have > 64 Meg memory
- per process, which means a new GCC will have be be release, X11 whith its
- shared libs will have to be rebuilt, etc, etc.
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- Unless I'm completely confused, but there shouldn't be any reason why
- you would need to have a new version of GCC, etc. It certainly
- shouldn't be hard to allow to run programs in a backwards-compatible
- manner, without requiring that you need to recompile the world.
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- Linus?
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- - Ted
-