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Tue May 20 15:17:19 CEST 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-May/079610.html

A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:50:39PM +0200, Thomas Heller wrote:
> > Myself I would rather spend my energy to make ctypes more portable, within my
> > skills and the platforms I have access to.
> 
> Someone could run Solaris x86 inside a hosted virtual machine and make
> it available to the Python developers.  Is it possible to find similar
> hosting for HP-UX and AIX?  Or might IBM or HP be willing to donate a
> low-end machine to the PSF for porting use?

You can test HPUX and VMS with a (free) HP Testdrive account (along with a
bunch of Linuxes and *BSDs) on various hardware platforms.  I used it
extensively when doing portability testing of another project.
http://www.testdrive.hp.com/

Charles
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[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.