Pair of Twiggys

[Toby Thain]

On 2017-03-15 5:17 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
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>> The whole idea of an "operating system"  seems to have morphed into the
>> notion of a user interface.
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>> To my way of thinking,t he various flavors of Linux are really a user
>> interface build on a single operating system.
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> 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"?

1983. All the world's a VAX.

1993. No sorry, all the world's a SPARC.

2013. Oops, no, all the world's an x86.

--T

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>> One thing you can depend upon in this field is the inconstancy of
>> definitions.
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> Agreed.
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> Regards,
> Peter Coghlan
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