Kent Wormsdorf wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:36:40 +0800, Chong YL wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>
>>We have a sun ultra 5 running a critical application and we are looking for
>>a spare unit
>>as a backup.
>>
>> There seems to be plenty of recondition Sun ultra 10 in the market but not
>>Sun ultra 5.
>>
>>On checking the technical specification , they seems similar except for the
>>casing.
>>
>>Anyone tried to run a sun ultra 5 application on a sun ultra 10 box?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>rgds
>>
>>Johnny
>
> Hi Johnny
>
> The Ultra 5 and 10 are the same, only in diffrend boxes, and diffrend CPU
> speeds.
> And as long You have the same version of Solaris there should never be any
> difficulties running applications from a Ultra 5 on a Ultra 10.
>
> Btw. Solaris 9 is running Solaris 8 apps fine, like Solaris 8 is running
> Solaris 7 apps, and so on.
>
>
> Greetings from sunny Denmark.
> Kent Wormsdorf

In general. In rare cases, you will actually get breakage. Sometimes
you can get around it with some degree of coding--sometimes you do not
have the source.