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mrweaselyesterday at 11:21 AM1 replyview on HN

OpenBSD famously keeps a lot of esoteric platforms around, because running the same code on multiple architectures reveal a lot of bugs. At least that was one of the arguments previously.


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lprovenyesterday at 4:59 PM

Which is why Windows NT was multiplatform in 1993.

Developed on Intel i860, then MIPS, and only then on x86, alongside Alpha.

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