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No, and why should I?

I got into UNIX development back when the whole team shared a development server and we used telnet and X Windows for our "IDE".

No one was running SPARC, RISC System/6000, PA-RISC, MIPS, Eclipse MV locally.

When everyone keeps worshipping UNIX, maybe it is time to learn how grey beards used to develop for it.




> it starts by having a local environment that matches the OS of the servers

> No, and why should I?

These two statements are in direct conflict. CPU architecture is as much part of “matching the server” as operating system.

When I built software for SPARC, I was also running SPARC locally…


That's how I came up too. It sucked. It's good that it's being forgotten.




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