On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 14:48, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > > As far as I know, even Windows XP can still run Win 3.x, Win95 and DOS > > programs and Mac OS X has a whole compatibility layer to run previous > > MacOS software. > > Noe of which is perfect. I remember WinNT4 having trouble with lots of > older app. And Win98 has troublewith some. I wouldn't know about new M$ > "OS"es, but I'm sure there are still problem cases. And Linux has compatibility layers too. There are compat-libc packages, there are LD_ASSUME_KERNEL settings (read the release notes), etc. They just aren't enabled by default, so you have to pay attention. --Jeremy -- /=====================================================================\ | Jeremy Portzer jeremyp@xxxxxxxxx trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \=====================================================================/
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