Re: svr4, again

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

I'd rather not - on the rare occasions when I boot up my pmax, I do actually
have a couple of Ultrix binaries I run.  If I couldn't, about 5 years of
my academic work would be lost to me (because Digital's packaged applications
couldn't export to any portable format except print-analogues like
Postscript).

What needs to be done to Ultrix compatibility to keep it alive?  I will
admit to not looking at it in at least a decade, but it was pretty darned
small, wasn't it?

On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 10:56:34AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Let's retire them.
> 
> christos
> 
> > On Mar 9, 2019, at 5:28 AM, Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > Re-reading this thread - which was initially about SVR4 but which diverged in
> > all directions -, I see there were talks about retiring COMPAT_ULTRIX and
> > COMPAT_OSF1, because these were of questionable utility, in addition to being
> > clear dead wood (in terms of use case, commits in these areas, and ability to
> > test changes).
> > 
> > Does anyone have anything to say?

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     tls%panix.com@localhost
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