Pair of Twiggys

[Toby Thain]

On 2017-03-15 7:02 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> On 2017-03-15 5:17 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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"?
>>
>>
>> 1983. All the world's a VAX.
>
> Running BSD
>
>> 1993. No sorry, all the world's a SPARC.
>
> Running Solaris

Yeah, or SunOS 4 was the reference platform for a while.

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

Yep.

--T

>
> 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
>>>
>>
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