[Pdx-pm] Perl runs on ? OS's

[david pool]

Very nice. Thanks!

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chromatic wrote:
> On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 11:00 AM, david pool wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone come up with an official or semi-official count of 
>> operating systems Perl runs on? I'm working on a grant application 
>> that rewards interoperability but I've been unable to come up with a 
>> count.
> 
> 
> Last I remember, it was 70-odd platforms.  I've only been able to find 
> Jarkko's slides from OSCON 2002 after 5.8.0 was released:
> 
> New Platforms:
> 
>     AtheOS
>     Mac OS Classic
>     Mac OS X
>     MinGW
>     NonStop-UX
>     NetWare
>     UTS
> 
> Regained Platforms:
> 
>     BeOS
>     DYNIX/ptx
>     Mac OS Classic
>     NCR MP-RAS
>     POSIX-BC
>     VM/ESA
>     z/OS (OS/390)
> 
> Lost Platforms:
>     AmigaOS
> 
> Throw in at least five free BSDs: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, and 
> BSDi, GNU/Linux in all of its incarnations, several Unix variants 
> including Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX, VMS, Cygwin, Windows, Mac OS X, and 
> more obscure platforms such as OS/2, WinCE, and the PlayStation.  I've 
> missed a few in that list too.  That's 30 so far.