Are V10 applications compatible with V11?

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From: RWS
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1987 12:13

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    Am I correct in my assumption that V10 applications are incompatible?

Yes, you are correct.

    Or is there perhaps a compatibility library?

There has been much talk about providing either a compatibility library
or a conversion tool, but not much action yet (to my knowledge).  At least
one site has tentatively volunteered, so perhaps something will happen
eventually.  If anyone else would like to volunteer to help in such an
effort, I would suggest they send mail to xbeta@athena.mit.edu.  Any
compatibility library provided is unlikely to provide complete
compatibility, however; various "fringes" of the protocol have just
changed too much.  It should, however, be possible to provide reasonably
complete V10-style "stateless" graphics interfaces.

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