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says...
> Peter asks...
> "Why is suprtool only ported to HPUX?  Once you've gone to UNIX it's
> fairly trivial to go to other UNIX platforms and Windows isn't too hard."
>
> IIRC Supertool is written to take advantage of the PR-RISC chip and won't run on other chips.

Sounds like it's been written in assembler rather than the more usual C
that you'd normally use.  That'd explain why it hasn't been ported but
it's an odd decision since it's main purpose is to retrieve data rather
than any CPU intensive operations.

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