Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats

> On Mar 15, 2019, at 2:31 PM, Michael Kronsteiner <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>=20
> i have this discussion today aswell... considering 64/32bit machines.
> if you want ultrix, install ultrix. if you want osf1/dec unix/tru64
> install that. being able to run ummm.... nearly 20 year old =
binaries...
> well. if thats what you want be prepared for a ride. i never ran
> "foreign" binaries on a BSD. and i often compile myself even on more
> "user friendly" systems.

In the case of Ultrix, you don't even need the old system to run Ultrix =
binaries, because IIRC, they're all statically-linked.  There's already =
been one example of "ability to run commercial software for Ultrix" =
posted in this thread, and we should let that keep working (believe it =
or not, it actually works really well in the Ultrix case, as well as =
SunOS on SPARC, though you do need the system shared libraries and =
dynamic linker in that case).

-- thorpej