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How much of Windows has _honestly_ been re-written? There's so much baggage in Windows it seams it's just not possible it has been re-written that many times.
by JustSomeNobody 9y ago
How much of Windows has _honestly_ been re-written? There's so much baggage in Windows it seams it's just not possible it has been re-written that many times.
- webreac 9y agoMost of windows 3.11 was in assembly and p-code (according to the book "undocumented windows"). A lot of assembly was still present in 95, but almost all was converted to C/C++ in XP and vista.
- chungy 9y agoNot as much as some would believe. The change from NT 5.x to NT 6.0 (Vista) wasn't really a rewrite in any sense of the word, at least no more than Linux 4.0 is a "rewrite" compared to 3.0, despite that all the little chunks had been touched over eventually. Many applications (such as Notepad and Paint) derive directly from the original Windows 1.0 versions.