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EPICS Release base 3.14.0alpha1</h1>
This is the first release of 3.14. The primary purpose of this release
is supporting iocCore on platforms besides vxWorks.
<p>iocCore is now supported on the following platforms:
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vxWorks - The intention is to provide an easy migration path for existing
applications</li>
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RTEMS - This is an open source real time operating system.</li>
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solaris - It has been tested on solaris 2.6 and solaris 8.</li>
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Linux&nbsp; - It has been tested on ?</li>
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winNT</li>
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A new version of the Application Developers Guide is available. See
<p>http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/base/R3-14.php
<p>This page has links for the App Dev Guide and also a link to learn more
about RTEMS. In the Application Developer's Guide read Chapter 2, which
describes the new eatures for 3.14.
<p>It must be emphasized that this is an alpha release.
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Please don't use it for existing operational systems</li>
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Don't build your operational CA clients with it.</li>
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The APIs for new components in libCom are still evolving so if you use
them be prepared for changes.</li>
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HPUX - No support currently because we could not find support for multithreading.</li>
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