On Sep 14, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Pete wrote:

> What I am
> talking about is writing intrinsics like FWRITE so that they are
> identical from MPE user mode perspective, and internally use Linux
> system calls.

Aren't there products like MP-UX that already do this? IIRC, there is/ 
were at least two (and I know that I as well as Stan have our own set  
of "intrinsic" work-a-like that run on various *ix thingies). Aren't  
you re-inventing the wheel here?

> Exactly my point!  Use Linux to load the MPE binaries that have been
> compiled into the native instruction set, say Intel x86, with MPE
> intrinsic libraries that are internally Linux.

There is a big fallacy here that no-one has yet talked about: this  
requires source. There are enough sites out there that  
(unfortunately) have lost sources to some of their applications. What  
do they do? An emulator satisfies their needs. Recompiling/ 
retargeting does not.

>> Most of that has already been done for HP-UX.
>>
>> http://www.allegro.com/products/hp9000/intrinsix.html

I shoulda read further before commenting above.


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