Officially Logshipping was introduced from SQL Server 2000 only. But surely we can create job to do the same thing in 6.5 & 7.0 with creating customized jobs/SP.
Also one more difference is in Logshipping you can have access of the destination database as READ-only; While in mirroring you do not.
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