Forgive some of the marketing hyperbole -- I took out most of it and left
the parts that are informative and useful (I hope) for this list. There
are updated porting guides for moving apps from AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris
to DIGITAL UNIX. In the "article" extract, there is a pointer to our Web
site where you can get the guides in PostScript or PDF format, as well as
the order numbers for the hardcopy guides (which I believe you can order
through your sales or support contact, but it's always easier if you have
the part number to give them and tell them it's in "LOS").
Tom
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, UNIX Software Group, Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road, MS ZKO3-2/U20 Nashua, New Hampshire 03062-2698
Technology Partnership Engineering Phone: (603) 884-0646
Internet: tpb_at_zk3.dec.com Digital's Easynet: alpha::tpb
ACM Member: tpblinn_at_acm.org PC_at_Home: tom_at_felines.mv.net
Worry kills more people than work because more people worry than work.
Keep your stick on the ice. -- Steve Smith ("Red Green")
My favorite palindrome is: Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
-- Phil Agre, pagre_at_ucsd.edu
Yesterday it worked / Today it is not working / UNIX is like that
-- apologies to Margaret Segall
Opinions expressed herein are my own, and do not necessarily represent
those of my employer or anyone else, living or dead, real or imagined.
April 1998 UNIX News
** Porting Guides Available **
One of the strengths of DIGITAL UNIX is its conformance to standards.
A key industry analyst, D.H.Brown, recently re-affirmed DIGITAL UNIX
as the most standard compliant UNIX in the industry. DIGITAL UNIX
supports all the key industry standards, including BSD and System
V profiles; no other vendor does that. That means DIGITAL UNIX is
the easiest port applications to, and to develop on, for use today
on Alpha, and for use tomorrow on Alpha and Merced. Bleeding edge
software development companies know this. Netscape now develops
its Internet product set called Suitespot on DIGITAL UNIX.
Porting applications to DIGITAL UNIX is easy. In fact, many user level
UNIX applications should simply recompile and run on DIGITAL UNIX.
Migration Software Systems, Ltd. of San Jose, California, has ported
millions of lines of code to DIGITAL UNIX on the Alpha architecture.
Their comment on the process is instructive: "Porting to DIGITAL UNIX
can be done with a minimal amount of effort if that code was developed
with proper software engineering practices."
Now porting to DIGITAL UNIX is even easier. Three new porting guides
help answer the question of "Gee, I wish I knew now what I'll know
when I'm done porting". These new 60 page guides proactively guide and
instruct application developers, system managers and software engineers
on how to move applications and users from the Solaris, AIX and HP/UX
operating systems to DIGITAL UNIX. They compare the difference between
DIGITAL Digital UNIX and the operating systems including directories, file
systems and libraries. They discuss 64-bit considerations including language
data types, pointers, constants and structures. They instruct on
the best way to port applications, how to use tools such as the
porting assistant, and cover special considerations for threaded
applications. The guides even discuss how to transfer data between
big-endian and little-endian systems and how to find additional
porting resources on the Internet.
From the WEB, where you can download the .pdf and .ps, or view
the HTML versions, go here:
http://www.unix.digital.com/faqs/publications/pub_page/porting.html
For hardcopy copies, ask your Digital sales or support contact to order
from Digital's Literature Order System (LOS) using these numbers:
EC-G8536-43 AIX to DIGITAL UNIX Porting Guide
EC-G8537-43 HP-UX to DIGITAL UNIX Porting Guide
EC-G8538-93 SUN Solaris to DIGITAL UNIX Porting Guide
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