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Nitpick: Win32s was limited, and missed a lot of functionality. From the linked Wikipedia article: The "s" in Win32s signifies subset, as Win32s lacked a numbe
by sillywalk 2y ago
Nitpick: Win32s was limited, and missed a lot of functionality. From the linked Wikipedia article:
The "s" in Win32s signifies subset, as Win32s lacked a number of Windows NT functions, including multi-threading, asynchronous I/O, newer serial port functions and many GDI extensions. This generally limited it to "Win32s applications" which were specifically designed for the Win32s platform."
There was a MS knowledge base article with the long list of limitations, archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110524062145/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q131896/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110524062145/http://support.mi...
- lproven 2y agoOh, yes, totally true. It wasn't a lot of actual use, but a few non-trivial apps ran. (Briefly, this being Win3.) But it falsifies the statement that 32-bit code didn't run on Win3. Even late-era DOS has 32-bit apps.