Etnus Releases Beta Version of TotalView Debugger For Intel Mac OS X; Power Mac OS X and Solaris-Opteron Also Supported.NATICK, Mass. -- Etnus LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control has begun beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the Version 7.3 of TotalView, the industry standard for debugging multiprocess and multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. programs on Mac OS X, Linux, and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . This latest version of TotalView adds full support for the new Intel Core Duo-based product line from Apple - including MacBook, iMac, and Mac mini - as well as Solaris-Opteron. The TotalView memory debugger is now available on all of these platforms as well as Power Mac. It lets programmers interactively locate problems that otherwise would be found with difficulty using post-mortem dumps. "Developers want to continue to use tools with which they are familiar," comments Scott Tate, Vice President of Marketing of Etnus. "Now that TotalView runs on Intel-based Macs and Solaris-Opteron, developers can use a proven tool to help port their applications to these environments." Information on registering for this beta test is located on the Etnus home page, http://www.etnus.com. About Etnus Etnus is the world's leading provider of debugging and analysis solutions for complex code. Etnus products enable software engineers to visualize, control and correct complex UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X applications running on development machines with single, dual core, multi-core, or multiple processors. Etnus' flagship product, TotalView, enhances software development productivity by eliminating much of the frustration, delays, and headaches involved in debugging complex, multi-process, multi-thread, and network-distributed applications containing many lines of code The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. . For more than two decades, Etnus products have been at work in research institutions, government laboratories and technical computing centers, as well as commercial enterprises in the financial services, telecommunications, biotech, aerospace, automotive, weather prediction, film special effects and animation, oil and gas exploration and CAD/CAM CAD/CAM in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. markets. These tools are especially well suited for high performance, distributed or cluster computing in multiple-processor environments. Privately held, Etnus offers its expanding product line through direct salespeople and a worldwide network of resellers. For more information contact Etnus LLC at: 24 Prime Parkway, Natick, MA 01760; phone: 800-856-3766 (U.S.A.), 1-508-652-7700 (outside U.S.A.); fax: 508-652-7701; e-mail: info@etnus.com. |
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