Software portability

  • Authors:

  • Peter J. Brown

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Software is said to be portable if it can, with reasonable effort, be made to run on computers other than the one for which it was originally written. Portable software proves its worth when computers are replaced or when the same software is run on many different computers, whether widely dispersed or at a single site.