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0 pointspjmlp8y ago0 comments

Windows has been a viable platform for software development since always.

I have been developing Windows software since Windows 3.1 and my first UNIX was Xenix, followed by DG/UX, Aix and many other variants.

Windows is perfectly viable developer OS for C++, Delphi, Tcl/TK, Perl, Python, Java and .NET developers.

Microsoft did a mistake not following up on Windows NT POSIX support, because that is what many care about is POSIX shell utilities and C APIs, the actual kernel is irrelevant.

However now GNU/Windows fixes that problem.

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walshemj8y ago

Exactly I spent many years with a windows desk top as my pc developing for Solaris and before that Primos (an ITS derived os) and for Unisys A Series mainframes.

dingo_bat8y ago

> GNU/Windows

I LOL'ed.

mattfrommars8y ago

That's crazy.

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