From: none@invalid.com   
      
   On 23/08/2024 19:14, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:   
   > On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:49:42 GMT   
   > Charlie Gibbs  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Not if you were stuck programming for MS-DOS or Windows, unfortunately.   
   >   
   > 	I briefly programmed for MS-DOS at the same time as XENIX but I   
   > have managed to avoid ever writing anything for Windows - I've almost   
   > managed to avoid ever having to even use Windows but Dell scupppered that   
   > record by buying a PPOE, putting the B in org and making us all use Dells   
   > running Windows - so I left.   
   >   
      
   You are lucky.  Sadly my employers have customers (mainly in Asia) that   
   insist we provide the same software for both Linux and Windows. Quite   
   often we have issues making stuff as reliable on Windows as on Linux and   
   then we find that the customers ran up the Windows version once to check   
   it worked and then use the Linux versions. But they *must* have a   
   Windows version. And now we have the clusterfuck that is Win11 and lots   
   and lots of stuff that no longer works and driver signing issues and....   
   Still it keeps me fed and off the streets.   
      
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