> > > There's precisely four OS APIs that it's worth writing new software for: > > > > * UNIX > > * Windows > > * VMS > > * Whatever IBM is calling the descendants of OS/360 this week. > > What about AS400? > > Also there are some embedded OSs without POSIX compatibility, e.g. OS-9.
Disclaimer: the following is NOT a sample of an operating system you want to target. As the maintainer of CPAN I once in a while get asked for Perl for platform X, and our list is pretty good: http://www.cpan.org/ports/ I believe we are up there with kermit, zip, and gcc. I think so far the most exotic request was Primos. After some research I concluded that the SDKs available for Primos were Fortran and COBOL (and presumably some macroassembler, but not the one called C), I had to mournfully reply that sorry, Perl is unlikely to run in your system. -- There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
