Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Jun 2007 20:30 UTC, submitted by Nitsudima
OSNews, Generic OSes "The Free Software community is well known for its diversity. This is most obvious at the application level, but even exists in the context of operating systems. David Chisnall takes a break from UNIX-derivatives and explores some of the more esoteric options." Note: From experience, I can say that the author's claim that "Haiku is more or less ready for their 1.0 release in terms of features" is a bit overambitious.
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RE[4]: UNIX-likes boring?
by Vanders on Wed 27th Jun 2007 06:52 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: UNIX-likes boring?"
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Well, the IA64 ABI is the Cross Vendor ABI. See http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/libstdc++-html-USERS-3.3/na...

"GCC subscribes to a relatively-new cross-vendor ABI for C++, sometimes called the IA64 ABI because it happens to be the native ABI for that platform."

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