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What platforms does Ghostscript run on?

April 26, 2017Ghostscript platforms run

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What platforms does Ghostscript run on?

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Ghostscript is written entirely in C (with some optional assembly-language accelerators for DOS platforms), with special care taken to make it run properly on systems of either byte order (“low-endian” and “high-endian”) and of various word lengths. GNU Ghostscript is known to run on the following platform families: • A wide variety of Unix systems using X Windows version 11, releases 4, 5, and 6, including • Sun-3, Sun-4, Sun-386i, Sun SPARCStation with SunOS 4 and Solaris 2.[56] • Generic Intel-based systems running Linux, 386/ix, 386BSD, FreeBSD, ISC Unix, SCO Unix, and Solaris • H-P 9000/300 and 9000/800 • DECStation 2100, 3100, and 5xxx • Alpha systems running Digital Unix • VAX running Ultrix • Sequent Symmetry • Convex C1 and C2 • Tektronix 4300 • SGI Iris Indigo • 4.4BSD Unix systems (FreeBSD on Intel) • NetBSD on Intel, Sun SPARC, Motorola M68K (Apple, Amiga, Sun, H-P), and VAX • Sun workstations running SunView • VAX and Alpha systems running OpenVMS with X11 compiled with ei