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In all fairness, Windows 3.11 is so ancient that it is probably immune to (or overlooked by) most modern threats.
by speed_spread 3y ago
In all fairness, Windows 3.11 is so ancient that it is probably immune to (or overlooked by) most modern threats.
- asveikau 3y agoYou're also pretty limited in what you can do and who you can communicate with on an older OS. For example, Windows XP doesn't support modern and commonly implemented TLS.
- vetinari 3y agoWindows 3.11 didn't come with TCP/IP stack, just IPX/SPX and NetBEUI. You had to install TCP/IP separately.
- asveikau 3y agoYeah I remember. There were 3rd party winsocks and they had compatibility problems. I remember upgrading to 95 and trying to run 3.1 winsock apps. It worked. But it had lots of issues. I was just pulling out the XP example (a decade newer than 3.1) to illustrate the scale of difficulty one would have. You could literally have the same SChannel binary run on Win11 and WinXP... And the XP one wouldn't be able to talk to the modern internet due to TLS. Obviously the further back in time you go, the more of this type of problem you would have.
- sonicanatidae 3y agoTrumpet Winsock anyone?
- sonicanatidae 3y agoEICAR incoming!