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6 Sep 2024 09:14:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Debian  
From: Warp
Date: 5 Mar 2009 18:53:59
Message: <49b06617@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Yeah. I wonder if Vista et al is as portable as NT used to be, like whether 
> they managed/bothered to maintain that for the most part or not.

  Keeping portability to diverse architectures costs time and money.
Having portability is not a great commercial asset in the case of Windows.
I wouldn't be surprised if they had made the decision of forgetting
portability a long time ago. It's simply not cost-efficient in this case.

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                                                          - Warp


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