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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message <is0vhm$ha$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>> The funny thing, is that Java when it came out, was supposed to
>> solve all these differences by putting a virtual OS between the
>> application and the OS, this way one writes to this one common
>> virtual OS (the VM) and not have to worry about the different
>> OS's below it.
> Those who knew the history of previous attempts to do this sort of thing 
> could already predict why it wasn’t going to succeed.

I wouldn't exactly call "one size fits *almost* all" a failure.