> > Is MUMPS + VistA used on any other big endian machine? > Just curious.=20 > > J.
I don't recall if the Data General or IBM 360/370 machines were big endian. MUMPS has run on so many machines that I feel confident that it has run on as many variations of computers as you wish. No one to my knowledge has tried VistA on all of the varieties of machines supported by Cache and GT.M, however I expect it can run on all of them. MUMPS code very rarely deals with anything at the level of big-endian and little-endian. The ANSI/ISO standard pretty much is written to make it very difficult for a Standard MUMPS routine to be able to tell. In fact, a MUMPS program isn't even supposed to be able to tell if the characters used are stored internally in ASCII or EBCDIC. Handling numbers for character values greater than 127 requires a different characterset profile, so Unicode might be able to be detected. David ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
