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"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." -JWZ It seems like Every* oper
by sillywalk 3y ago
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." -JWZ
It seems like Every* operating system adds some sort of Posix compatibility..
Some of IBM Mainframe OS's, AS/400 via PASE; HP's MPE->MPE/IX, VMS->OpenVMS, Stratus VOS, Tandem(HPE) Guardian OSS, and any number of clones/embedded systems, etc.
*I don't mean that literally.
- pjmlp 3y agoMostly because C and UNIX symbiosis, and ANSI C being too little. So POSIX ends up being the rest that everyone reaches out for when using C. The irony being that still isn't enough to get rid of #ifdef spaghetti, due to the things POSIX leaves out to each implementation.