Anyone who enjoys debating Linux vs. Windows should consider sitting down and writing a simple TCP echo server for both platforms in C without any high-level li

Anyone who enjoys debating Linux vs. Windows should consider sitting down and writing a simple TCP echo server for both platforms in C without any high-level libraries that depends solely on the canonical system-provided interfaces (i.e. just glibc or win32 [as in kernel32+winsock not one of the twelve different crts that ms shipped in msvc over the years]). Then you get a pretty good idea of what continues to make Bell System V so attractive to developers decades after its commercial failure and despite its everlasting warts on the desktop.