software portability

A main design goal of NT was hardware and software portability.

Use of such nonstandard extensions generally limits software portability.

- A paper he wrote with Geoff Collyer about software portability.

These observations led to software portability being a key goal of the SpectrumWare project."

By using Java bytecode instructions instead of processor-dependent machine code, maximum software portability is achieved.

The real question is how Microsoft intends to address software portability challenges and bridge the gap between the two architectures for third-party application developers.

Software portability may involve:

Portable apps are distinct from software portability, source code written to be compilable into different executable programs for different computing platforms.

The technical specification is designed so that implementations can meet the stringent requirements of communications applications, like high throughput, low latency, scalability, availability and software portability.

However, for the sake of software portability and readability, it is often best to write programs using the division operation and trust in the compiler to perform this replacement.

He was awarded the IEEE Computer Society's "Computer Pioneer Award" in 2003 for 'pioneering system software portability through the programming language BCPL'.

In addition, embedded software is typically developed for a specific hardware release, making issues of software portability, legacy code or supporting independent developers less critical than is the case for PC or enterprise computing.

The goal of Workplace OS was to improve software portability and reduce maintenance costs of IBM's software by using a common microkernel base for all of IBM's operating systems.

We visited and discussed three outstanding implementations which demonstrated how the Japanese have solved these problems using a combination of open standards (mainly for communications) and de facto and proprietary solutions for applications and software portability.

Later operating systems of UNIX heritage, including Linux, BSD, Solaris and OS X, are able to achieve a high degree of software portability by using the POSIX standard for calling OS functions.

Tom Mace, president and chief executive officer of 88open, believes the proposed Architecture Neutral Distribution Format-type software portability technologies now doing the rounds should be pursued as vigorously as possible, but argues that provision for support and verification must be developed, if the stuff is to become accepted by a still sceptical independent software vendor community.