Re: Linux compatibility ...

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 07:39:28PM +0530, Sachin Garg wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> 
> > Karan Girotra proclaimed:
> > > How can one determine if the unix version of any software will run on
> > > a linux machine??
> > > Doesn't linux support  older unix type of binaries ???
> > > so shouldn't all unix software run easily on linux ???
> > 
> > Binaries will not run across various unices.
> 
> What about IBCS?

To rephrase, if multiple Linux/UNIX machines stick to the same ABI (application
binary interface), then binaries of the above OSes for the same processor
*might* work on other OSes.

	-Arun



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