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01-20-2006, 04:13 PM
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Platforms
Calling all computer gurus...what's a platform and how do they work?
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01-20-2006, 04:25 PM
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A platform is your operating system.
I'm guessing you're running windows XP, am I right?
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01-20-2006, 05:28 PM
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Usually a "platform" is a bit deeper stack than just the OS although the OS will usually be a big influence. A platform is an environment that supports the application you're building. It might be an OS plus a set of libraries like Windows+GTK or Linux+GTK for fat GUI apps. It might be Apache+Tomcat+Struts+Derby for Java-based web apps or Apache+PHP+MySQL for WAMP/LAMP web apps. I.e. like a physical platform, it "supports" what is built on it.
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02-12-2006, 02:12 PM
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Thanks so much for the help!
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