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by pjmlp 3599 days ago
I had lots of fun porting software between Aix, HP-UX, Solaris, GNU/Linux and Windows NT/2000 back the late 90's up to until 2003.

That is where I learned what actually means "portable" UNIX software, specially if it needs resources like audio, external hardware or GUIs.

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Nowadays, SDL, the proliferation of X, and OpenAL make the situation better. But it's still a mess.