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Specifically, Windows actually checked whether SimCity was running and then allocated memory differently if it was. Joel Spolsky talks about it in this old art
by ladon86 16y ago
Specifically, Windows actually checked whether SimCity was running and then allocated memory differently if it was.
Joel Spolsky talks about it in this old article:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html
- k3dz 16y agoMore about Microsoft and backward compatibility is here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
- kenjackson 16y agoThere's a blog run by Raymond Chen, one of the engineers on the backwards compat team, which is about backwards compat and other arcane aspects of Windows: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/
- rospaya 16y agoThe part about millions of people sending millions of checks to companies really hit me. Why are Americans still using checks? I haven't seen one in more than a decade.
- krakensden 16y agoBank transfers basically aren't supported by anyone you'd like to give a large sum of money to, so you have to write them a check.