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Agreed. As a former MS-focused engineer in a previous life, I was constantly surprised by how many executables just continued to work 20 years after authorship.

Agreed. As a former MS-focused engineer in a previous life, I was constantly surprised by how many executables just continued to work 20 years after authorship. It's a different set of tradeoffs than other OSs have made, but a really remarkable one.

magpi3 7y ago
Gog.com makes their living specifically by updating games that no longer work on modern versions of Windows.
- wolfgke 7y ago
  > Gog.com makes their living specifically by updating games that no longer work on modern versions of Windows. Many old games that GOG distributes are not written for Windows, but for DOS.
- pcwalton 7y ago
  Through emulation (DOSBox), in many cases.