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> This means, as you've said, you can run old applications, as long as you have entire copies of the rest of the userland to go with them. isn't that why wind
by jcelerier 5y ago
> This means, as you've said, you can run old applications, as long as you have entire copies of the rest of the userland to go with them.
isn't that why windows can run old applications though ? every game used to come bundled with their own copy of everything down to the C & C++ runtime (and that's why they still can run)
- electroly 5y agoNo, not really. Win32, the bit that you use to actually put a window on the screen, is a system library that is simply backwards compatible forever. You don't distribute Win32 with your applications. Go ahead and try to find a copy of USER32.DLL distributed with your old applications; you won't find it.
- melony 5y agoThe hipsters these days go straight to WinUI. Microsoft's yet another half baked UI library.
- okanat 5y ago
- physicsguy 5y agoThe main reason Windows can still run stuff is because it has Visual Studio Redistributable packages at the OS Level. So got some software that needs VS's C++ symbols from 2008? Usually comes as part of the installation process, but you probably already have it installed.