On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:18:46 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Busybox is more to bash than to Ubuntu.  It's a shell, not a kernel.
> 
> Sure.  My point being that there's a whole lot more to Linux than the
> kernel, probably little of which is running on Android.

True, but the analogy doesn't really hold, which was my point.  It was 
like comparing donuts to rollercoasters.  (OK, maybe not *quite* that 
disconnected). :-)

>> I'm fairly certain that the Windows kernel code is not platform-
>> independent.  Microsoft stopped doing that back when they dropped
>> support for RISC-based Windows to the best of my knowledge.
> 
> They stopped *selling* it. I don't know why they'd let it no longer be
> platform independent if they know they want to pursue such things. But
> since neither of us really knows, there's not a whole lot of point in
> arguing it.

True, but I suspect that there's a lot more platform-dependent code in 
Windows than in Linux, based on my own experience.

Jim

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