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"Finally"? Didn't Win95 have CreateSemaphore?
by chadaustin 10y ago
"Finally"? Didn't Win95 have CreateSemaphore?
- gruez 10y agoNo? On the MSDN page for CreateSemaphore, it lists the minimum supported client as Windows XP.
- ComputerGuru 10y agoThey cleaned up the MSDN pages (which seems a huge and sad loss of historical data - they should include a history section like man pages), but have a look at the Japanese page: https://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/cc429076.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 https://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/cc429076.aspx?f=255... It mentions it's supported on Windows 95 and NT 4.0 (On a side note, I'm completely baffled that the metadata for MSDN is not locale-independent In their documentation generation engine/system. I would have thought only the page text would change from one language to another.)
- TillE 10y agoI had to do a bit of programming for NT4 only a few years ago (shudder), and the earliest OS the MSDN docs mentioned was always Windows 2000, even when those functions existed on NT4. Microsoft isn't very interested in maintaining docs about their ancient OSes.