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Re: Solaris ?

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> May 15, 2001
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sephiroth _ writes:
> this is kinda stupid...shouldn't any program coded for any 
> UNIX clone run on any UNIX clone(save the clones without 
> ncurses like BeOS)? it would make sense to have PC, 68K, 
> PPC, etc versions of the interpreter, but a version for every 
> UNIX flavor out there?

UNIX is not like Windows.
There are many different flavors produced by
many different companies or groups, and they
are all somewhat incompatible. On top of that
there are many different hardware platforms for UNIX.

You can't make an executable file and
expect it to work on anything but the one flavor
of UNIX it was built for.

Software that works across many different
versions of UNIX usually consists of C source code that
has hundreds of "#ifdef" statements to
select special code for each UNIX platform.
It takes either a large company, or a team of open source
hackers, to maintain it across several platforms.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com