Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats

Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:00:20 +0100

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On 2019-03-16 17:01, Mouse wrote:
[...]

> It's a little like the modern mania for cross-building.  It helps, but
> only if you/we don't forget that it's only a rough approximation.  How
> long was it VAX was broken because there was something wrong that
> showed up on native builds but not cross-builds?  People got used to
> thinking that because it cross-built, it was fine.  It's one reason I
> insist on self-hosting on all my machines.

You mean native builds on VAX now works again? When did that happen? :-)

   Johnny

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