Unless of course, they do a lot of bit manipulation, in which case that rotten Intel Arch. is inverted and out of order... -Paul
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Boyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 12:11 PM Subject: Re: Intel Architecture Emulated with Linux/390? > > As I am investigating vendor support for Linux/390, I have run into a > > question I cannot answer. Vendors want to know if Linux/390 > > emulates Intel > > architecture. > > No, it does not. > > > Apparently, when programming in C, they have to > > write the > > application to the specific architecture and that it will not work on > > non-Intel based systems. > > If you're getting crap like this from your vendors, you need new vendors. > > Your vendors will have to recompile their applications for the appropriate > processor architecture, but if they're too clueless to be able to understand > this, I'd be pretty wary of them in the first place. > > -- db >
