Jan. 10, 2003
5:47 a.m.
Gordon McMillan wrote:
I've heard the claim that ACE runs on more platforms than Java.
See http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-overview.html That claim may come from the support for RTOSs (such as pSOS), and they may also have counted older versions of systems which Java hasn't been ported to (such HPUX 9). However, the minority thread libraries that Python supports (AtheOS, OS/2), appear to be unsupported in ACE. I agree with Tim's statement that there is no real problem in breaking support for these systems - if somebody cares about them, somebody will fix it, else we can rip it out. I was just responding to the claim that looking elsewhere may help. Regards, Martin