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Re:Why the data center needs an operating system by aidenn0 on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:54PM (#8696883)
Oh this is definitely true. Most unix programs are not portable to POSIX, even when they don't intentionally use features that aren't in POSIX (e.g. kqueue).

UNIX API fragmentation is still a problem, but my point is that POSIX was trying to unify existing implementations rather than a greenfields project to generate a set of portable APIs.

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