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NTVDM and DOS/16-bit compatibility only died with the death of 32-bit Windows with 11. I'd say 40 or so years of backwards compatibility is pretty good.
by itsmartapuntocm 4y ago
NTVDM and DOS/16-bit compatibility only died with the death of 32-bit Windows with 11. I'd say 40 or so years of backwards compatibility is pretty good.
- throwaway09223 4y agoIt is really good. I'm not complaining! But -- the OSS world is even better in the very long term.
- thereddaikon 4y agoIt is and isn't. Really old stuff seems to work well. But just old stuff more often than not is unworkable. There's a serious issue in the Linux world with distros going down and software disappearing over time.
- Dylan16807 4y agoForcing you to use 32-bit windows hasn't counted as proper support since at least the release of windows 7. And more relevant is when people stopped releasing mainstream 16-bit programs, which is much much later when you consider all the 16-bit installers.
- throwaway09223 4y agoI believe 64bit WinXP was when 16 bit support was first dropped - circa 2005!
- Dylan16807 4y agoFor XP, being on 64-bit was weird. Vista was transitional. By 7, 64-bit was the expectation for non-junk new hardware.