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- From: steve-t@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Taylor)
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:14:15 GMT
- Subject: Re: Porting HP9000 Application to an IBM PC
- Message-ID: <7371277@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- References: <1992Aug30.200551.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg>
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- In comp.sys.hp, astsloke@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg writes:
- | I have a friend who would like to port an application over from an
- | Hewlett Packard 9000 series desktop computer to an IBM PC compatible.
- :
- | Source: Majority of code is in Interpreted HP BASIC
- | while some code is in HP PASCAL
-
- If, as I suspect, the Pascal code is used for CSUBs, then the HP Measurement
- Coprocessor (current name for the "viper" card refered to in another response)
- is worth looking at. Since it also has a 680x0 processor, there's a fair
- chance that the Pascal CSUBs will work there (depending on how "clean" they
- are ... unsupported I/O operations are unlikely to work).
-
- Any other solution will require re-coding of the Pascal portion of the
- application.
- Regards, Steve taylor
-
- NOT A STATEMENT, OFFICIAL OR OTHERWISE, OF THE HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY.
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