saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu (Lennart Saaf) (06/06/90)
We have a 9000/835 running 7.0. A colleague questioned a software manufacturer about their support of HP-UX. He said they did support the 300 series but not the 800 series. I am ignorant about the 300 series machines but wasn't 7.0 supposed to bring the two lines together? Obviously things have to be compiled on the particular series on which you want to run, but is there much more to it than that? Confused in Rochester, Len -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Len Saaf, The Institute of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY | | Internet: saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu Bitnet: SAAF@UOROPT | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge) (06/06/90)
In article <SAAF.90Jun5210949@joker.optics.rochester.edu> saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu (Lennart Saaf) writes: >We have a 9000/835 running 7.0. A colleague questioned a software >manufacturer about their support of HP-UX. He said they did support >the 300 series but not the 800 series. I am ignorant about the 300 >series machines but wasn't 7.0 supposed to bring the two lines >together? Obviously things have to be compiled on the particular >series on which you want to run, but is there much more to it than >that? > >Confused in Rochester, >Len A non-inclusive list: 1) HP-UX 7.0 is not a complete merge. For example, they have different C compilers. 2) The 800 series is a RISC like architecture with all of the portability constraints of that class of architectures. 3) The stack direction is different. 4) The 800 is a strictly aligned architecture. 5) The peripherials are different. For these reasons, supporting each of the HP series requires a software vendor to devote significant resources to development, capital equipment, QA, support and sales. regards, fletcher Fletcher E. Kittredge fkittred@bbn.com Platforms and Tools Group BBN Software Products Company 10 Fawcett St. Cambridge, MA. 02138