When is the Last Time You Booted to Windows?

[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

On 2/16/06, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> Even if there were an established ABI that the upstream kernel maintained,
> there would still be incompatibilities between versions.
>
> Look at any OS that maintains such an illusion for proof of this.
> Every time a vendor has done this, there's been some internal struct
> or function that wasn't exported, that 3rd parties wanted to poke
> around with, which inevitably does completely the wrong thing when
> things are changed.

I don't know, I think CTOS came pretty close to wide spread compatibility.
But I suppose being too compatible is not great either.

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