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Operating System and Other Software

External committments require that AIPS++ run on HP and Dec alpha hardware. In addition, development takes place largely on Sun Sparc machines running Solaris.¹These three platforms will be represented in our initial releases.

While those platforms must have adequate host libraries (X-Windows and the like), the dominant problem is apt to be in the available C++ compilers. Our first choice in each case is to use the vendor's native compiler. The fall-back in each case is to attempt to use g++ or a third-party CFront compiler.

Danger 1: We cannot find a compiler capable of compiling and linking AIPS++ on one of our target machines.

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