5400 binary and 3100 binary, are they compatible both ways?

[George Robbins]

In article <scs.648748265 at hela.iti.org> scs at iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
> In article <1990Jul20.162904.3793 at Neon.Stanford.EDU> farhad at CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri) writes:
> > When I installed our 3100s I just NFS mounted the /usr form
> > out 5400 to save time and space...
> 
> grr at cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> >I'm doing essentially the same thing with a 3100 and a 5800 with
> >3.1c and haven't noticed any problems of this sort.
> 
> Hmm . . . DEC went out of their way to tell us *not* to run Ultrix 3.1c
> binaries on 3100s -- they didn't know of any problems, just said it

I should point out that DEC has been quite consistant in saying this, however
when it come down to wasting ~150 M-byte of disk to serve an older version, or
forking out $nK to special order 3.1D media which DEC hasn't otherwise seen fit
to send me, then I'm reasonably happy to notice that it seems to work quite
nicely.


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