> MAME is the most portable piece of software ever. > I got it to run on my car GPS and now I'm working on running it on my treadmill so I > can play an exercise as the same time...
MAME may be portable but it's far from the most portable ever. Especially given that some drivers don't work on some systems as was pointed out earlier in the thread.
The Linux kernel is pretty portable and it is much harder to port. Then again there are tens of thousands (maybe exaggerating a bit) of Linux devs ...