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Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:14:12 +0200
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2024, rbowman wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:11:09 +0200, D wrote:
>
>> Was it very difficult to develop on AIX and then move stuff over to
>> linux?
>
> Not very. Most of it was having different compiler flags and libs in the
> Makefiles. AIX was very forgiving about null references and a few other
> things that Linux was picky about so there was a burst of bug fixes that
> improved the code.
>
> IPC was done with ONC-RPC so there was no problem with AIX daemons and
> Linux clients. Eventually that led to some inefficiency. RS6000 is big
> endian and the ONC-RPC XDR encoding is big endian across the network. The
> Linux boxes would swap the order when decoding the XDR. When clients
> switched to cheaper x86 boxes the data was still big-endian encoded on the
> little-endian machines, shipped across the network, and decoded back to
> little-endian.
>
> The MKS Nutcracker tools and runtime was used on Windows boxes so that was
> another set of entries in the Makefiles to build the Windows executables.
> Again there weren't a lot of changes.
>

Very interesting! Thank you very much for the description.