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> Java abstracted a lot of details like endianness, platform-specific APIs, etc. away. Well POSIX dates from the late 80s. That's not cross-CPU, but at least c
by cm2187 4y ago
> Java abstracted a lot of details like endianness, platform-specific APIs, etc. away.
Well POSIX dates from the late 80s. That's not cross-CPU, but at least cross-OS, which is what Gates was really concerned about.
- pjmlp 4y agoAnyone doing POSIX in the mid-90's has the scars to prove how "portable" POSIX is in reality, autoconf wasn't created out of coding pleasure.
- Beltalowda 4y agoIt's not like POSIX was universally adopted the day it was released; that took a long time. And not all systems were Unix/POSIX in the first place (e.g. Windows, VMS, the IBM s/3.., and on the consumer side Amiga, Mac OS, BeOS, etc).