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What is SPARCworks, EOS, and WorkShop?

April 26, 2017EOS SPARCworks workshop

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What is SPARCworks, EOS, and WorkShop?

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John Turner writes: SPARCworks is SunSoft’s development environment, comprising compilers (C, C++, FORTRAN 77, Fortran 90, Ada, and Pascal), a debugger, and other tools such as TeamWare (for configuration management), MakeTool, etc. See http://www.sun.com/software/Developer-products/ for more info. EOS stands for “Era on SPARCworks”, but I don’t know what Era stands for. EOS is the integration of XEmacs with the SPARCworks debugger. It allows one to use an XEmacs frame to view code (complete with fontification, etc.), set breakpoints, print variables, etc., while using the SPARCworks debugger. It works very well and I use it all the time. Chuck Thompson writes: Era stood for “Emacs Rewritten Again”. It was what we were calling the modified version of Lucid Emacs for Sun when I was dragged, er, allowed to work on this wonderful editor. Martin Buchholz writes: EOS is being replaced with a new graphical development environment called Sun WorkShop, which is currently (07/96) in Alpha Test.