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I wonder if pre-acquisition Skype was one of the hardest software the Windows team had to deal with. For example, at one point they used SYSENTER directly to ma

by yuhong 8y ago

I wonder if pre-acquisition Skype was one of the hardest software the Windows team had to deal with. For example, at one point they used SYSENTER directly to make system calls!

Hendrikto 8y ago
Do you have a source for this? I enjoy reading about horrible software.
- hestefisk 8y ago
  Source? Skype was always quite cross platform imho.
- yuhong 8y ago
  For SYSENTER: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1710 https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1710 Another example: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=27 https://www.pagetable.com/?p=27 This is just what is public.