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   • FinalOverdrive

   @FinalOverdrive We don't do enough story telling. So many of youth don't realize the time when every major hardware vendor (and even some software vendor) had their own closed source Unix OS; AIX (IBM), HPUX (HP), SCO, IRIX (SGI), Solaris (Sun), Tru64 (DEC), etc. (not to mention embedded OS or phone OS)

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     • FinalOverdrive

     @FinalOverdrive And don't get me started on why autoconf is around in the first place. Most of the pro-cmake/ninja folks don't know of the time when you had to also deal with all of those OS's and executable formats.
     a.out, a.outb, coff, xcoff, elf, etc.