Cross platform bliss.

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

As I type this on my windows XP desktop machine, I’m also logged in (via my other desktop machine running Ubuntu Linux) to an HP-UX system running on itanium, a Solaris 7 machine on a Sparc processor, two Solaris 10 machines on AMD64 , an AIX machine running on PowerPC 3 and another Linux box on intel i686.

So, that’s five operating systems, at least seven OS versions, and five processor architectures, with a nice mix of big and little endian-ness.

And the really nice thing is that I’ve just got my networking code to compile and run on all of them. (Although I’m looking at you, HP-UX, for not handling non-blocking sockets the same as the others!)

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