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Isn't it true for all programs? Not just _unix_ programs? Firefox is portable and it's a large program, but a LOT of effort went into that.
by b0rsuk 5y ago
Isn't it true for all programs? Not just _unix_ programs?
Firefox is portable and it's a large program, but a LOT of effort went into that.
- masklinn 5y ago> Isn't it true for all programs? Not just _unix_ programs? That's irrelevant whataboutism. TFA is very specifically in response to one pining about older unix ecosystems and seeing them as havens of portability, and explains that that was not the case at all.
- jhgb 5y ago> seeing them as havens of portability Was that in absolute, or relative terms? Since portability between OS/360 and TOPS-10, for example, was non-existent.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoNot only. The PDP-11 had 5 (6? 7?) different and incompatible OS options available for the same instruction set and hardware. Which - of course - varied somewhat different across different models.
- 0xbadcafebee 5y agoI don't know who ever thought Unixes were portable? None of them worked the same... If you were lucky maybe they'd be running the same architecture.
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- masklinn 5y agoAre commenters on this site functionally unable to click links anymore or something? Literally the first link in TFA's body text is the take they're replying to.