cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c

Jens Schweikhardt schweikh at schweikhardt.net
Thu Mar 10 09:51:13 PST 2005


On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:19:18PM +0000, Paul Richards wrote:
# On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:06:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
# > Paul Richards <paul at originative.co.uk> writes:
# > > Imagine something like Photoshop being written on the most recent
# > > version of Mac OS X and finding that compatibility only worked
# > > forward.  That would mean that most users out there would have to
# > > upgrade their OS in order to use the most recent version of Photoshop!
# > 
# > Yes, that is usually how it goes.
# 
# I don't believe it does. Can anyone provide real world examples of
# this happening that we can consider?

SunOS 4^WSolaris 1 vs Solaris 2 and the SparcWorks compiler suite? SunOS
4 users had to make do with the much inferior acc ("ansi c compiler").
Yes, that was long ago, but not unheard of, even in the commercial world.

Regards,

	Jens
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