[wellylug] somewhat off-topic Sparc

[Sam Vilain]

nic wrote:
> Hi people
> 
> Does anyone know if there's any way to run old SPARCstation-5 binaries written for Solaris 
> 2.5.1 (uname says SunOS 5.5.1.) (I said the code was old) on more modern Sun hardware?
> 
> If not, does anyone know where I could try to find out more about this?

On Solaris, should Just Work™ AFAIK, so long as you're on a sun4m or
sun4u platform (ie, not an x86 sun).  You might need some binary
compatibility package or 32-bit compatibility package.

This is a Linux list of course, but according to
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Linux+Solaris.html#ss7.2, support
for running Solaris binaries was never implemented.  I don't know about
OpenSolaris.

Sam.