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What is very visible to me (in the industry for about 35 years now) is that most people today only know 2 platforms: Unix and Windows NT. They are, considered
by lproven 4y ago
What is very visible to me (in the industry for about 35 years now) is that most people today only know 2 platforms: Unix and Windows NT.
They are, considered in context of the rest of the desktop personal computer industry, nearly identical.
But we had a mass-extinction event in the 1990s and most people under 50 haven't seen anything that is actually _different_.
So, for instance, people think that C is some sort of universal assembler and everything else is built on C. This is not even adjacent to something similar to the truth: it reflects the blinkers of the 21st century PC world.