__/ [ Linonut ] on Saturday 03 March 2007 02:25 \__
> After takin' a swig o' grog, yttrx belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Roy, does it really matter to you how much hardware linux runs on? Do you
>> really have a MIPS machine lying around to play with? Or an UltraSPARC?
>> Or an RS/6000 machine?
>>
>> Face it, the only thing thats important to you is that Linux runs on x86,
>> so stop pretending.
>
> However, the fact that it builds and runs on a large number of platforms
> indicates that the code has been read and reread many times.
>
> Heck, just getting code to compile on both gcc and Visual Studio
> uncovers a fair number of mistakes (at least in my code!)
That's a nice perspective that never crossed my mind. But what I was going to
say (I was in a hurry so I didn't) is that you can start small and grow
larger without code rewrites. You can use inherent scalability and
cross-platform portability of Linux to move your -- let us say -- DNA
sequencing program from a laptop to a 10,000 node supercomputer.
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