If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily creat…

Linus Torvalds
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If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.
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If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

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