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Unix specs vs. Windows specs

From Peter Seebach’s Standards and specs: Not by UNIX alone (IBM developerWorks: 8 March 2006):
In the past 20 years, developers for “the same” desktop platform (”whatever Microsoft ships”) have been told that the API to target is (in this order):
* DOS
* Win16
* OS/2
* Win32
* WinNT
* WinXP
* and most recently .NET.
Of course, that list is from [...]