https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8L...
Specifically, Alan Cox's comment that he can still run an a.out rogue binary from 1992 on a 3.6 version of the Linux kernel. Linux 1.2 was released March 1995.
Looking around, it requires a bit of work (see for example http://www.ru.j-npcs.org/usoft/WWW/www_debian.org/FAQ/debian... ).
Here's a recent (2014) report of success: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/running...
rogue is text only. According to a report from 2009 at https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/linux-binary-compati... :
> A Mosaic binary from 1994 just segfaults, as well as all the other ZMAGIC binaries (1994-1995) I have lying around.
but OTOH that may be because of the setting of noexec and other flags.
Looking around, it requires a bit of work (see for example http://www.ru.j-npcs.org/usoft/WWW/www_debian.org/FAQ/debian... ).
Here's a recent (2014) report of success: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/running...
rogue is text only. According to a report from 2009 at https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/linux-binary-compati... :
> A Mosaic binary from 1994 just segfaults, as well as all the other ZMAGIC binaries (1994-1995) I have lying around.
but OTOH that may be because of the setting of noexec and other flags.