Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:50:44 +0100 From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c Message-ID: <20050310175044.GB784@schweikhardt.net> In-Reply-To: <20050310171917.GQ98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk> References: <422E407B.4080507@portaone.com> <86k6oht386.fsf@xps.des.no> <422F087F.9030906@portaone.com> <20050309.085035.129356491.imp@bsdimp.com> <422F6703.70409@portaone.com> <20050310161607.GO98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk> <86d5u7fn1z.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050310171917.GQ98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk>
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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@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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