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peter@xxxxxxx.xxx (Peter da Silva) writes: > That's why I originally suggested just porting the whole HPUX > userland over to Tru64, and junking the kernel... then letting me > choose which side I was compatible with. Thing is, I think their backward compatibility obsession extends as far as third-party kernel extensions. Why else would they have gone to the trouble of bolting a big-endian mode on the side of the IA64 (scuse me, IPF) so they could continue to use their kernel for that? They say they didn't want to audit their kernel for endianisms, but Tru64 was already little-endian-sound, being DEC product. Besides which, having two incompatible sets of shell utilities on the same system would be a recipe for misery and hate in itself, especially when /bin/sh would (of course) remain the old horrible thing that it is. Having the mostly-the-same /usr/xpg4 variants is bad enough. Do I need to mention Pyramid? zwThere's stuff above here
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