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Τρομοκρατιστής ✭ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @369f21f8 I dont think any UNIX programmer to want to live again this hell.
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Τρομοκρατιστής ✭ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @369f21f8 of course the meaning of this incompatibilies was to trap in each company's product.
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Τρομοκρατιστής ✭ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @369f21f8 And on real joke, Microsoft from NT 3.5 was used to say that is POSIX compatible .... NO THEY WASNT, I was used NT for this reason.
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ee130ced | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @680dad18 well, I was naively impressed that they had a POSIX subsystem in NT4.0
It did have better security than, well WIN 95 had less than zero.
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Τρομοκρατιστής ✭ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @369f21f8 hahaha ... they had a few functions but even them was with prefix an underscore just to break your nerves :P
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ee130ced | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @680dad18 no, it was not complete, but I didn't expect anything!
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Τρομοκρατιστής ✭ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @369f21f8 it had not fork() i dont remember what else...
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Τρομοκρατιστής ✭ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @369f21f8 but I dont know why, it is very easy to implement, just you copy the process memory...