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I think "terminal" here also includes differences in the shell. For example if you type "command *", a Unix shell will expand the star before calling the comman

I think "terminal" here also includes differences in the shell. For example if you type "command *", a Unix shell will expand the star before calling the command. On Windows the star is passed to the command.

calvin_ 12y ago
not the mention the way disks, processes (unix forks and execs, windows spawns) and I/O work
- ygra 12y ago
  And character sets. A lot of poorly-done ports of Unix software cannot cope with Unicode on Windows.