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From: raw@math.arizona.edu (Rich Walters)
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Subject: Re: Can a Sun2/120 take SunOS 4.x and/or Unix 4.3 ?
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In article <5090@brazos.Rice.edu> cs519905@caesar.cs.umn.edu (Aaron Y. T. Cheung) writes:
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>How compatible is SunOS 3.5 and SunOS 4.x ?  Can I expect 4.x binaries to
>run under 3.5?  If not, how about at source level?
>

We have two Sun 4's which run OS 4.1 and several 3's running 3.5.  4.1
_is_not_ binary compatible with 3.5. Some of the professors keep two bin
directories, one for 3.5 versions and one for 4.0 versions.

				Richard Walter

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