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No XML Parsers. Limited i18n / l10n support in the OS. File formats that were serialized structs. Limited art (I remember looking at the time zone map in the re
by becurious 5y ago
No XML Parsers. Limited i18n / l10n support in the OS. File formats that were serialized structs. Limited art (I remember looking at the time zone map in the resources of some Win 9X DLL and it was a palettized bitmap. The palette index for the selected time zone would be set to the highlight colors and the others to the unselected color). Less diversity in hardware meant simpler and fewer drivers, or just writing directly to video memory. Caring about the working set of programs because on a cooperatively multitasked system like Windows 3.1 with 4MB of RAM if you’re lucky it counts.