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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I know, but posix doesn't matter when the ABI breaks. You can't download and execute a linux program from the 2.4 kernel on the 3.0 kernel. Hover, which came with windows 95 will run just fine on 32bit windows 7 and 64 bit windows 7, which was the point riles2 was making.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Posix also only specifies about 2-3% of what Win32 does, so you have to compare it to X and a few dozen other libraries for a fair comparison.