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From: "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 00:15:44 +1000
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<Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 20 May 2025 15:05:01 +0100
> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wibbled:
> >Operating systems have least excuse of all for turning rock into
> >sand. It's harder to build stable software if it has to sit on
> >top of amorphous gloop.
>
> On a related note, I can still compile unix C code I wrote in the 90s at
uni
> without any changes on linux and mac.

And I can write code I wrote that complied with the ANSI 89
draft available circa 1987 on Windows 10.

I can't run Windows 11 on the computer I smuggled out of
Communist China (with Zhaoxin processor).

BFN. Paul.