Re: A call for help from a total newbie...

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 11/28/05 

Date: 28 Nov 2005 22:24:52 GMT

"Lifson Kofie" <kate.glover@gmail.com> writes:

>I could use a hand if you kind people could oblige. Myself and someone
>at work have been having a bit of a retro phase re: computing recently.
> The result of this, is that he's gone pretty nostalgic and wants to
>run a program which he used to use years ago at his old job. He's been
>buying up SPARC stations on eBay like mad - and needs a copy of
>SunOs/Solaris 1.1.4 to run the program.

So he has a SunOS 4.x program which will not run in binary
compatibility mode on Solaris?

>I know not the whys and wherefores - only that he assures me that this
>is the only version old enough to run it! The problem we're having
>however, is that to find anything older than v6, is proving to be nigh
>on impossible.

What's v6?

Casper 

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