18 Sep
2017
18 Sep
'17
6:41 p.m.
On 9/17/17, David <david(a)kdbarto.org> wrote:
What a pain, almost like Unix, and not quite. l It was
a clone of Unix for
the 68k. The APIs were ever so slightly different because the authors were
concerned about copyright infringement. libc calls had different argument
orders or types and in general it was just off enough that you wanted to
claw at the screen every time something went wrong.
And the tragic irony is that those sorts of cosmetic tricks don't
shield you from copyright infringement.
-Paul W.