From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10807300810s4d854612ib7597a9463f7f02f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:10:40 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <488B6EE7.3080100@mtu.edu> <1217421120.5036.34.camel@goose.sun.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene Topicbox-Message-UUID: f587385a-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 In the HPC world, there is lots of conservatism. There is an editor at LANL, named Fred, written in Fortran, that has been in use for longer than most of you have been alive. Until very recently, it was a required part of any HPC system. So, we're doing a binary compatibility module so we can run code compiled with the hot IBM compilers like XLC and XLF. ron