[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00d3533c$0$23826$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
>>    So no, to me Linux is not a UNIX.  It's a UNIX look-alike.
> 
> Can you easily recompile software from one Unix to Linux ? Or vice versa ?

   Depends on the software.  I've ported a lot of software between
   TOPS-10, Xerox RBM, SEL RTM, IBM's OS for 360 so old I can't 
   remember the name, RSX-11M, VMS, TOPS-20, many flavors of UNIX, 
   Linux, MS-DOS, MS Windows, MacOS, ...
   
   It's amaizing how much trouble you can have porting a simple ANSI
   C routine that manipulates tapes between flavors of UNIX, or how
   little trouble you can have porting ANSI Fortran-66 between 32 bit
   processors.