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When this discussions happen on HN, I always see a narrow discussion of Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, Windows and with luck *BSD.

But the world of operating systems is so much bigger than the desktop under the desk.

Good work on Dylan by the way.



I'd love to have the time and the resources to deal with more OSes. :) 20 years ago, I had to keep stuff running on Solaris and lots of other platforms. About 20 years ago, I still did some work on VMS on actual VAX hardware! It wasn't that long ago, that we had the possibility of BeOS either. Comparatively, we have quite a monoculture (of POSIX) these days with Windows being the non-POSIX representative.

Maybe unikernels like OpenMirage will help make things interesting.

And thanks! The work on Dylan is a lot of fun and keeps me semi-sane by keeping me busy.




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