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Microsoft broke a lot in the past few years when they got rid of their dedicated QA department(s) but they are very keen of fixing backwards compatibility issue
by foepys 6y ago
Microsoft broke a lot in the past few years when they got rid of their dedicated QA department(s) but they are very keen of fixing backwards compatibility issues. I can still run my desktop application that I compiled in 1998. Try that on a Mac.
- uncledave 6y agoTry running 16-bit visual basic, which I was still writing as late as 2000, on a Ryzen and your analogy falls to bits. I remember the entire win16 to win32 porting effort that had to go in. APIs are never stable forever. Change is the only constant and I've learned to embrace it where possible or suffer later.
- Joe_Cool 6y agoThat would actually work fine on Windows 10 32bit. It still has NTVDM and can run 16bit and DOS programs.