Quote: current, computerized systems need finer and broader distinctions about portability (gives examples); many systems are hand-crafted

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We must cover both finer and broader distinctions … days of computing, when every machine was hand-crafted … [the authors discussed parallel and distributed models, large main memories, different number representations, different time representations, different character representations, multidatabase systems, high-dimensional I/O, acoustic I/O, communication standards, file systems, and languages, different system conventions such as terse messages or menus, world-wide markets, assumed utilities]   Google-1   Google-2

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