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What architecture changes would you have wanted for Windows 2.0, given the constraint of running on an original 8086? (IIRC, that constraint wasn't lifted until
by mwcampbell 8y ago
What architecture changes would you have wanted for Windows 2.0, given the constraint of running on an original 8086? (IIRC, that constraint wasn't lifted until Windows 3.0.)
- iforgotpassword 8y agoThis was more of a general comment. I mean sure, if you couldn't have designed it any better given the technical constraints this makes sense, but just from personal experience there is always something you wish you'd have done differently in retrospect. This is why I can only assume there must have been at least one critical customer they didn't want to piss off, or it was somewhat of a proof of dedication to backwards compatibility, as in "see, even if nobody is using our product we still make the next version compatible".