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Carbon is a better Apple-related comparison since it's basically a cleaned-up version of the classic Mac OS API as a library that ran on both Mac OS X and classic.

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Win32 runs on Linux by way of SQL Server.

uhhhhhh yes, but not really? All Win32 calls are intercepted and handled by SQLPAL, instead. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/blog/2016/12/16/s...

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