[2277] in testers
Re: sun4 7.6F: $bindir and @sys on solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Jul 29 15:03:26 1993
To: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>, sparc@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 29 Jul 93 14:56:32 -0400.
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 93 15:03:05 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> You might as well complain that "decmipsbin" is used for Ultrix 3 and
> Ultrix 4 binaries, which are about as incompatible as SunOS and
> Solaris binaries. We survived that switch.
Maybe I should, but I've never used Ultrix 3, and I don't know of any
machines currently running Ultrix 3 that I can log into around MIT.
On the other hand, I do know of plenty of SunOS4 machine that will
probably stay SunOS 4 machines until they get decommissioned... And
these machines are only a year or two old! (Meaning they probably wont
be decomissioned until after I get my Master's Degree!)
Yes, this is a philosophical issue. And as I said in my initial mail,
when things become incompatible, then you should change the name! So
long as things are compatible its ok to keep the name. I would like
to be able to support both SunOS4 and SunOS5 machines, because I feel
that I support more than just "athena", but I can't because both
resolve to "sun4bin".
-derek
