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Article #4414Re: NRW- coming soon
From: Stephan Schell
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:26
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:26
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In article <1992Dec16.132918.8472@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) writes: If PA is in the plans for NeXT, I hope either HP or NeXT builds a box specifically for NS or one without any HP proprietary gotchyas. We have been working with the HP 9000 800 series for the last few weeks and HP has quite a bit to learn about putting a decent OS on what is really some wonderful hardware. Also, the 700's and 800's are not binary compatible due most probably to the multiprocessor architecture of the 800. -- Mark T. Dornfeld Voice: (416) 234-9048 CYANTIC Systems Facsimile: (416) 234-0477 101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103 Email: mark@cyantic.com Having administered a 9000/720 and a 9000/835 that sat on the same table, I can tell you that the the CPUs _are_ binary compatible. Indeed, one can compile something on the new box (720) with an option to not use one or two new instructions, and the executable will run on the old box (835). Also, everything we've compiled on the 835 runs on the 720. The only exceptions to these observations are due to having version 8.07 of the OS on the 720 and version 7.0 on the 835 (where things like shared libraries are not implemented). Also, we have not had any out-of-the-ordinary problems with porting stuff to either HP. Many software packages include the appropriate flags in the makefile for the HPs, and those that don't were typically easy to fix. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Stephan V. Schell schell@gauss.ece.psu.edu 121 Electrical Engineering East Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 (814) 863-8102
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uwm.edu!psuvax1!atlantis.psu.edu!apix.psu.edu!schell From: schell@gauss.ece.psu.edu (Stephan Schell) Subject: Re: NRW- coming soon In-Reply-To: mark@cyantic.com's message of Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:29:18 GMT Message-ID: <SCHELL.92Dec16132649@gauss.ece.psu.edu> Sender: news@atlantis.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Eng., Pennsylvania State University, USA References: <1giql5INNo5@hamblin.math.byu.edu> <1gitslINNnat@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec16.132918.8472@cyantic.com> Date: 16 Dec 92 13:26:49 Lines: 34