> Of course the OS matters! Windows is a nasty ball of patches in order to maintain backward compatibility with the 80s. Linux and OSX don't have to maintain all the nasty hacks to keep this backward compatibility.
Just don't tell that to Linus Torvalds :) Because Linux absolutely does maintain compatibility with old ABI from 90-s.
> Just don't tell that to Linus Torvalds :) Because Linux absolutely does maintain compatibility with old ABI from 90-s.
That’s nothing. IBM’s z/OS maintains compatibility with systems dating all the way back to the 60’s. If they want to think they are reading a stack of punch cards, the OS is happy to fool them.
Just don't tell that to Linus Torvalds :) Because Linux absolutely does maintain compatibility with old ABI from 90-s.