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Re: Moving VAX into 21 century :-)



On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:10:06PM -0700, Chris Hanson wrote:
> Does NetBSD on VAX not need to be compatible with VAX 4.3BSD or
> Ultrix[1] binaries?

I don't think it matters, in this context -- to maintain that level of
compatibility, we just need to be normal-enough at the system call entry
points themselves.  We aren't going to link Ultrix or 4.3 objects against
NetBSD libraries, nor vice-versa...

Thor


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