From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) Subject: Re: Xenix (tm) emulation for Linux almost works : -) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:22:15 GMT
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 22:21:53 GMT
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.
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.
Linus?
- Ted