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Sure there were still some data structures that were limited by being designed in the old 16bit era. Fun fact: even today kernel "Unicode strings" are limited t
by ChrisSD 7y ago
Sure there were still some data structures that were limited by being designed in the old 16bit era. Fun fact: even today kernel "Unicode strings" are limited to a length that can be held in a signed 16bit value. Fortunately 32,767 is enough for anybody so it was never changed.
- dspillett 7y ago> Sure there were still some data structure IIRC it was more than just data structures and that other chunks of GDI were 16-bit, in part due to problems with 32-bit driver support for graphics hardware at the time.