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> anti competitive practices from Windows You would more likely be amazed by all the dumb hacks in the system for backward compatibility, mostly for other comp
by drewcoo 3y ago
> anti competitive practices from Windows
You would more likely be amazed by all the dumb hacks in the system for backward compatibility, mostly for other companies' software.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050824-11/?p=34463 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050824-11/?p=34...
- realitythreek 3y agoIt seems dumb and it is dumb, but it’s also an important feature of Windows that your terrible app from the 90s can still run today with minor changes generally. Less so if it’s win16 but anything win32 is good to go. Also, Linux has a similar philosophy as Linus has eloquently described in the past. [1] [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
- hulitu 3y ago> It seems dumb and it is dumb, but it’s also an important feature of Windows that your terrible app from the 90s can still run today with minor changes generally. This is a myth which is mostly not true from some time.
- realitythreek 3y agoCan you explain how it’s not true? I’ve personally run software from the 90s. I am not a myth!
- vGPU 3y agoWindows 11 killed NTVDM and 16 bit support.