Alternate CPU builds of filePro over the years

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>

> On 5/6/2013 3:00 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> [...]
> > To the best of my knowledge and belief, the only non-x86 CPUs for
> > which
> > any Unix version of Filepro was ever compiled were the AT&T
> > 3b2/7300's,
> > and the 16032 in the NCR Tower, and I'm relatively certain none of
> > those
> > are still available. Maybe also the IBM RT.
> [...]
> 
> Well, there was, of course, the original -- the Tandy 16/6000 with the
> 68000 processor.

D'oh.  In fact, the original was probably the Z80, but that was pre-small,
I guess.  Was there any code carryover at all?

> Over the years, there were other 68000-series based computers beyond Tandy
> and NCR, such as Plexus. Then there was the 88000-series Data General DG-UX
> line. (Unlike the x86 processor line, every manufacturer had their own,
> mutually incompatible, *nix binary format.) There were two HP-UX versions
> that I recall -- one "IA64", and another for some RISC processor.
> There was also the IBM AIX (both RS/6000 and PowerPC) computer line. And there
> was a Sun SPARC version as well. There was an "Ultrix" port, but I don't
> recall the CPU. And I don't know if you would consider the VAX/VMS version a
> "Unix version". (No, VMS is nothing like Unix, but filePro's functionality
> was identical to the Unix version.)

I had forgotten that the NCRs were 68k; I didn't know you did a Itanium 
build; the other HP would have been PA-RISC, and I don't think I ever heard
about that one other.  I did cross paths with the RS/6000 build once.

Ultrix was DEC, and that was probably the Alpha CPU.  And no, VMS is
absolutely nothing like Unix... but it's architecture did serve informally
as the base for WinNT's API.

I'm assuming there were lots of ifdefs in the build to support all those
variant OSs; are they all gone now?  It it actually possible to build 5.x
for anything other than i686?

Cheers,
-- jra
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