Portability (computing)

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In computing and software engineering, references to portability generally refer to the ability of the software being written to be easily 'translated' to run on various different platforms.

The operating system NetBSD is n open source Unix-like variant that is considered very portable - so much so that NetBSD's homepage proclaims "Of course it runs NetBSD!," a reference to to the multitude of computing devices that can run NetBSD[1]


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  1. ↑ "NetBSD Homepage". Retrieved on 2009-06-28.
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