Path: news.cs.au.dk!not-for-mail From: nospam2159@cs.au.dk (Peter von der=?iso-8859-1?q?_Ah=E9?=) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: BETA for any other OS? Date: 06 Apr 2000 02:38:14 +0200 Organization: Computer Science Department of the University of Aarhus Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <20000405212829.3361.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ufleku.cs.au.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: xinwen.cs.au.dk 954981494 14580349 255.255.255.255 (6 Apr 2000 00:38:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.au.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Apr 2000 00:38:14 GMT X-Attribution: Ahe User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.6 Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12286 >>>>> "SK" == Sascha Kimmel writes: SK> I only wonder that you support platforms as IRIX and HP-UX, SK> although they are not "mainstream operating systems" for the SK> "normal" end-user. I can answer that (I think). When BETA was designed UNIX was *the* platform. Solaris, HP-UX and IRIX where the mainstream operating systems from that point of view. Further more, the Computer Science Department of University of Aarhus (DAIMI) had HP's and Suns at that time. Later on we got SGI workstations as well, and BETA was ported so the students could use BETA on the newest and fastest computers. If you don't understand why this is of importance, read this page: Cheers, Peter (Sysadmin at DAIMI) -- YMMV