Machine independence: the problem of portability
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Authors
Coulter, Edward Carl
Parker, Daniel James
Subjects
Portability
Machine independence
Machine independence
Advisors
Kildall, Gary A.
Date of Issue
1974-06
Date
June 1974
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Computer program portability is a measure of the effort which must be expended when transferring a program from one environment to another. Historically, there have been several approaches to portability, but most have met with little success. The problems of portability are presented, along with techniques available to computer programmers to solve or alleviate those problems. Concurrent with this study, a portable preprocessor/editor was designed. The preprocessor/editor was intended to give FORTRAN users a machine-independent means of character output and provide a simple editor for text manipulation.
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Department
Computer Science Group
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.