Re: OS/400 support?

From: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OS/400 support?
Date: 2003-01-07 01:55:52
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0301071252560.10806-100000@linuxworld.com.au
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Dan Langille wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > > Info:
> > > http://search400.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid3_gci331973,00.html
> >
> > That page quoth
> >
> > OS/400 and its related software has added support for:
> >
> > The Portable Application Solutions Environment (PASE), which
> > supports a subset of the AIX environment so that Unix applications can
> > be ported and run on the AS/400
> >
> > This suggests that our AIX port might work with little or no tweaking.
> > Or perhaps not; "subset" could cover a multitude of sins. But it'd be
> > worth trying.
>
> That would be very wild if we could do that. Who volunteered? ;)

It might be pretty simple given PASE support and a hardware/OS manual. The
problem is that first assumption: how many OS/400 users have PASE
implemented? I'd say, not many.

Gavin

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