steve@cs.hw.ac.uk (Steven Salvini) (01/17/91)
We have just acquired a DEC Station 5000/200 RISC machine and I am trying to port our "local" (previously Vax- or Sun-resident) software to it. We are running Ultrix V4.0 (RISC). I would greatly value any insights from anyone who has already tried such an operation - most things seem to port o.k. but a few, like Tex and the Writer's Workbench, are proving a bit of a problem... I will, of course, summarise to the net as appropriate. Yours in supplication, Steve. =============================================================================== Steven Salvini 79 Grassmarket JANET steve@uk.ac.hw.cs Heriot-Watt University Internet steve%cs.hw.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu Computer Science NSFNET steve%cs.hw.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk EDINBURGH EH1 2HJ Scotland U.K. EARN/BITNET steve%cs.hw.ac.uk@UKACRL Phone (+44) 31 225 6465 (x557) UUCP steve%cs.hw.ac.uk@ukc.uucp Newsgroups: comp.sys.ultrix Subject: Porting to Ultrix - HELP!!! Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: steve@cs.hw.ac.uk (Steven Salvini) Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Keywords: We have just acquired a DEC Station 5000/200 RISC machine and I am trying to port our "local" (previously Vax- or Sun-resident) software to it. We are running Ultrix V4.0 (RISC). I would greatly value any insights from anyone who has already tried such an operation - most things seem to port o.k. but a few, like Tex and the Writer's Workbench, are proving a bit of a problem... I will, of course, summarise to the net as appropriate. Yours in supplication, Steve. =============================================================================== Steven Salvini 79 Grassmarket JANET steve@uk.ac.hw.cs Heriot-Watt University Internet steve%cs.hw.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu Computer Science NSFNET steve%cs.hw.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk EDINBURGH EH1 2HJ Scotland U.K. EARN/BITNET steve%cs.hw.ac.uk@UKACRL Phone (+44) 31 225 6465 (x557) UUCP steve%cs.hw.ac.uk@ukc.uucp
brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister) (01/18/91)
On 17 Jan 91 08:46:56 GMT, steve@cs.hw.ac.uk (Steven Salvini) said: > We have just acquired a DEC Station 5000/200 RISC machine and I am > trying to port our "local" (previously Vax- or Sun-resident) software to > it. We are running Ultrix V4.0 (RISC). I would greatly value any insights > from anyone who has already tried such an operation - most things seem to > port o.k. but a few, like Tex and the Writer's Workbench, are proving a bit > of a problem... I've built TeX (3.0) and GNU Emacs 18.55 as well as billions and billions (hi Carl!) of programs from the net, with no problems at all, on Ultrix RISC machines. There's no real difference between Ultrix/RISC and Ultrix/VAX. Any program that is sloppy about data alignment should compile and run, but will generate a lot of unaligned access traps (and cause the machine to slow). If you can be more specific about the TeX problems you're having I might be of more help. James -- James Brister brister@decwrl.dec.com DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, CA {uunet,sun,pyramid}!decwrl!brister