Hello, Just a dumb question, as i'm totally out of this business, it is easier to write an emulator than translate the applications to plan9 c ? (for example) or to write (or port) the C++ and Fortran compilers and related tools?
i'm asking from a technical point of view, i suppose dealing with the current users and customers is the real issue, right? thanks gabi > In the HPC world, there is lots of conservatism. There is an editor at > LANL, named Fred, written in Fortran, that has been in use for longer > than most of you have been alive. Until very recently, it was a > required part of any HPC system. > > So, we're doing a binary compatibility module so we can run code > compiled with the hot IBM compilers like XLC and XLF. > > ron
