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How is a greater variety of operating systems, with much less in common than even Unix and Windows, more pleasant? I figured the situation in the 80s and early
by mwcampbell 12y ago
How is a greater variety of operating systems, with much less in common than even Unix and Windows, more pleasant? I figured the situation in the 80s and early 90s would be less pleasant for developers, since targeting multiple platforms would be more difficult.
- pjmlp 12y ago- Lots of ideas how and what an OS should be - Lots of systems programming languages to choose from - Tight integration of OS and hardware experience Most of the time we were writing in Assembly anyway and we would specialize on a given system. So of course it was pleasant to develop for our platform of choice. Porting to other platforms was done via out-sourcing to companies that specialized in the desired systems. A model that still persists in the gaming industry.