Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

I built and used EPICS base and many of the extensions on Alphas
(DECUnix/Tru64).  There were a few issues with older extensions that were
coded assuming pointer=int=long, mostly easily fixed.

Properly written X/Motif applications should not be a problem, as X and
Motif were designed to be architecture/word-size independent.

I even tried to build XView (for the old archiver) from source, without
success.  Some poking around on the net turned up an Alpha port which
worked.

I was using the native DEC compilers.  GCC generally worked also, but the
DEC compiler was faster and tended to generate more compact code.  I never
tested whether it ran faster or not.

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Brian McAllister                                   Senior Software Engineer
[email protected]                             MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator
(617) 253-9537                                                Middleton, MA

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