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Weird how Windows is mentioned as one of the two programming models and then discarded. Obviously people have long-standing objections to commercial operating s
by rm445 4y ago
Weird how Windows is mentioned as one of the two programming models and then discarded. Obviously people have long-standing objections to commercial operating systems and Microsoft in particular, but it would be interesting to hear whether the many non-POSIX-y parts of Windows provide a better or worse model.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoWaitForEvent() was a mini-masterpiece of API design in Windows that has taken decades to surface in POSIX-y systems, and even then not quite as nicely as Microsoft's original.