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== NonStop Kernel ==
TODO : Guardian, OSS environments, file formats, big endian x86

== NonStop/UX ==

== Development Environment ==
TODO : Relationship with OSF/1, toolchains - COBOL/C/C++

== Variants ==

=== TNS/X ===
Executables for the x86-64 variant are usually identified as <code>ELF 64-bit MSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (HP NonStop Kernel), dynamically linked, with debug_info, not stripped)</code>, by the <code>file</code> utility.

These systems are unique, in that that NonStop Kernel always runs in a big endian mode, despite the underlying CPU being little endian.

=== TNS/E ===
Executables for the Itanium variant are usually described as <code>ELF 64-bit MSB IA-64, version 1 (HP NonStop Kernel)</code>, by the <code>file</code> utility.

These machines boot using EFI, and can boot from an El Torito-compliant ISO 9660 volume, such as the ''HPI Loader, and Halted States SVCS NS1000FWV1 Update 1 (542908-002)'' disc, that has been archived.

=== TNS/R === 
Executables for the MIPS variant are usually described as <code>ELF 32-bit MSB MIPS, MIPS-I version 1 (SYSV))</code>, by the <code>file</code> utility.

== Resources ==
[https://ituglib.connect-community.org/apps/Ituglib/SrchOpenSrcLib.xhtml ITUGLIB Open Source Software Ports]