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About Portability

Portability is the quest for uniformity in a diverse environment. Ideally, portability means an application developed on one platform such as UNIX may be run on other platforms such as Microsoft Windows without changes.

In reality, the different ways that various platforms and windowing systems implement the basics that provide their distinctive "look and feel" mean that the distinguishing characteristics of one user interface may appear differently on another user interface. For example, the placement and presentation of the Help menu is different on Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and Motif.


About the porting process

Designing for portability