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After reading the title and domain name, I already knew who the author is.
by f311a 4y ago
After reading the title and domain name, I already knew who the author is.
- rjbwork 4y agoLol. My exact thoughts before clicking the link "Let me guess, this is Chen"
- AceJohnny2 4y agoEverybody Loves Raymond
- commonlisper 4y agoExactly! Raymond Chen is doing a great job at sharing interesting stories from a bygone era.
- criddell 4y agoBygone? It's a fairly regular occurrence where I search for some Win32 API and end up on Chen's blog. I get what you are saying about articles like this one though. I can't imagine much new work is happening with the 8086 (or 8088 or '186 or '286 or ...)
- GabrielTFS 4y agoI mean even w.r.t. Windows stuff, quite a large part of what he talks about is variations on "here's an interesting old anecdote from 1995" or "You know that thing that's totally useless now and doesn't matter ? Here's why we absolutely needed it in 1989."