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- From: jeff@hpuplca.nsr.hp.com ( Jeff Gruszynski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Re: Porting HP9000 Application to an IBM PC
- Message-ID: <24540006@hpuplca.nsr.hp.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 18:38:29 GMT
- References: <7371277@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Neely Golden Gate Area (Northern Calif.)
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- >In comp.sys.hp, steve-t@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Taylor) writes:
- >
- > 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.
-
- The only caveat is that the RMB and CSUBs to be run on Viper must be RMB 5.1x
- and the corresponding PWS rev for a Viper running RMB 5.14 or RMB 6.x
- for RMB 6.2 on Viper. If you're running RMB 4.0 or earlier, you'll need to
- recompile the CSUB Pascal code. Going to 6.2 is best because of
- changes made in CSUB libraries that obviate this rev dependency.
-
- Jeff Gruszynski
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- Semiconductor Test Equipment
- Systems/Applications Engineer
-