14 z/TPF and WebSphere Application Server in a Service Oriented Architecture
In TPF and its predecessors, that build environment was MVS™ (later OS/390® now z/OS®).
That meant TPF shared with z/OS the complier, language libraries, and programming model.
It also meant that development tooling was confined to what could work with z/OS and be
customized for the target system approach.
z/TPF is significantly different from the prior version of TPF in that the build environment is
Linux, not z/OS. This can be any Linux. Except for building the z/TPF operating system itself,
the development and build can be on any Linux server on any platform (Intel® or Power for
example).
z/TPF depends on the GNU tool chain, which includes the GCC complier and ...