15 Mar
2017
15 Mar
'17
5:15 p.m.
On 2017-03-15 7:02 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
Yep.
--T
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Toby Thain via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Yeah, or SunOS 4 was the reference platform for a while.
On 2017-03-15 5:17 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
wrote:
1983. All the world's a VAX.
Running BSD
The whole idea of an "operating system" seems to have morphed into the
notion of a user interface.
To my way of thinking,t he various flavors of Linux are really a user
interface build on a single operating system.
Has anybody else noticed that the meaning of "portable code" seems to have
morphed into "can be built on two or three different flavours of Linux"?
1993. No sorry, all the world's a SPARC.
Running Solaris 2013. Oops, no, all the world's an x86.
Running Linux
I'm waiting for the rise of cell phones to make it
202x All the world's an ARM running Android
Warner
--T
One thing you can depend upon in this field is the inconstancy of
definitions.
Agreed.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan