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From: boston@celerity.UUCP (Boston Office)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: annoying machine dependencies
Message-ID: <303@celerity.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 16:04:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: celerity.303
Posted: Thu Jul 25 16:04:56 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 03:56:32 EDT
References: <11551@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: boston@celerity.UUCP (Boston Office)
Organization: Celerity Computing, San Diego, Ca.
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Summary: 

In article <11551@brl-tgr.ARPA> craig@LOKI.ARPA (Craig Partridge) writes:
>
>[Mild Flame]
>
>    I've recently been getting a spate of 4.2 sources which are
>unnecessarily VAX dependent.  Byte ordering dependencies, asm()'s
>and minor sillyness like including "/sys/vax/XXX.h" instead
>"/sys/machine/XXX.h".  (Before someone screams about this,
>many of the .h files in /sys/vax are actually not very
>different from those in /sys/sun on SUNs -- I can't claim
>true knowledge for other 4.2 machines).
>
>    Right now I know of at least 5 machines running 4.2
>(Vaxen, Pyramids, SUNs, Integrated Solutions, Tektronix
>workstations).  It would be nice if authors of 4.2 sources
>would keep this in mind.
>
>Craig Partridge
>craig@bbn-loki (ARPA)
>craig%loki.arpa@csnet-relay (CSNET)
>{decvax,ihnp4,wjh12}!bbncca!craig (USENET)


--- Not to mention the Celerity C1200.