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  1-10 of 11 Reviews about "Portability (D.2.7...)": Date Reviewed
  Automatic derivation of compiler machine descriptions
Collberg C. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 24(4): 369-408, 2002.  Type: Article

This 40-page paper deals with a fascinating idea. In fact, at first sight, the idea seems almost like science fiction or sorcery. The author describes a software tool that, given the Internet address of some unknown target machine, au...

Dec 3 2002
  Porting UNIX software
Lehey G., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1995.  Type: Book (9781565921269)

As someone who has ported half a dozen applications across half a dozen UNIX platforms, I looked forward to reading this book. It contains much useful information for beginning systems administrators and UNIX programmers. Like most O&a...

Aug 1 1996
  Multi-platform code management
Jameson K., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1994.  Type: Book (9781565920590)

Two levels of information are intertwined in this book. The first is the author’s philosophy for good source code management, especially where multiple programmers are working on the code or versions of the code are being mai...

Oct 1 1995
  Developing and localizing international software
Madell T., Parsons C., Abegg J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1994.  Type: Book (9780133006742)

Developed from a manual for users of HP 9000 computers, this slim book begins with an approach to the general development of internationalized software. Much of the discussion centers on UNIX- and C-based software systems. Cross-langua...

Jun 1 1995
  Strategies for Supporting Application Portability
Mooney J. Computer 23(11): 59-70, 1990.  Type: Article

The degree of portability of an application is defined by the extent to which the effort of transporting and adapting the software to a new environment is less than the effort of redeveloping it from scratch. Types of portability inclu...

Oct 1 1991
  The viewport technician: a guide to portable software design
Bentley M., Scott, Foresman & Co., Glenview, IL, 1988.  Type: Book (9789780673183835)

This book examines five windowing systems: the Amiga with Intuition, the Atari ST with GEM, the IBM PC family and compatibles with GEM, the IBM PC family and compatibles with Windows, and the Apple Macintosh and IIgs. It attempts to pr...

Mar 1 1989
  Software portability
Lecarme O., Pellissier Gart M., McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1986.  Type: Book (9789780070369481)

Searching for effective methods of writing software once and using it many times has been an effort not unlike the search for the Holy Grail--you know it probably doesn’t exist in exactly the form you think, and may ...

Oct 1 1987
  STRAPS: A Software TRAnsPort System for low-level software
Fairfield P. Journal of Systems and Software 5(4): 291-302, 1985.  Type: Article

This paper describes a system for facilitating the portability of programs. The method is to decompile the source assembler into an intermediate language, and recompile that into the target assembler. The intermediate language is at th...

Oct 1 1986
  On squeezing the UNIX quart into a data general eclipse pint pot
Cooper R. Software--Practice & Experience 15(6): 571-581, 1985.  Type: Article

The author describes how Version 7 UNIX was ported to a Data General Eclipse Minicomputer. The Eclipse is similar to the PDP-11, on which UNIX was developed, in that it uses 16 bit logical addresses alongside memory management. On the ...

Apr 1 1986
  Data types are values
Donahue J., Demers A. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 7(3): 426-445, 1985.  Type: Article

This paper discusses the type system of the RUSSELL programming language. That system views a data type as a “collection of named operations that provide an interpretation of values and variables of a single universal value s...

Apr 1 1986
 
 
 
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