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In hopping chips, will IBM hop Solaris and Windows too? (ZDNet)
ZDNet takes a
look at IBM's new Chiphopper. "Chiphopper -- a package of free
technologies and services that IBM released at LinuxWorld -- is exactly
what it says its. It takes the expertise that went into making Red Hat and
SuSE's distributions of Linux portable to IBM's mainframe (z Series) and
Unix servers (p Series) and bottles it up into a turnkey porting tool that
commercial software developers can use to painlessly port their apps from
the x86 version of Linux to IBM's big iron systems (thus "hopping
chips")."
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What, another porting toolkit? Posted Feb 24, 2005 13:40 UTC (Thu) by davecb (subscriber, #1574) [Link] This might be news to Z-D, but it sure isn't to anyonewho's used the classic porting tools of the last ten years. If you use for example, JScore to flag DEC-isms, you get code that runs on any one of the seriously Posix-compliant system, such as Solaris or Linux.
See http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/solaris/downloads/tru_...
--dave
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