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On 15 May 2004 at 22:56, Adam Sampson wrote:
If you can find me an X11 binary from 1996 than runs unmodified on a modern installation without using some legacy binary compatibility package then I'll gladly retract my assertion.
This sounded like a fun challenge. It took me a few minutes to find a binary that old that used X11, but eventually I succeeded:
http://offog.org/stuff/mosaic.png
That screenshot shows the NCSA Mosaic 2.5 Linux binary from 1995 running happily on my GNU/Linux 2.6.5 machine. I downloaded the binary, uncompressed it, and it worked. It doesn't render my web pages very well, but it's nine years behind the state of the art in HTML. ;)
Wow, I'm *impressed*. It also brings back memories, I haven't seen NCSA Mosaic in a very, very long time.
I retract my statement that you can't run unmodified Linux binaries from 1996 on modern systems. Thanks for proving me wrong.
Cheers, Niall