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According to the author's bluesky posts, there's a few features missing from Win32s compared to regular Win32 that prevent this from being ported even further b

According to the author's bluesky posts, there's a few features missing from Win32s compared to regular Win32 that prevent this from being ported even further back to windows 3.1 easily.

pjmlp 2y ago
"General limitations under Win32s (131896)", surviving technical note. https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.microsoft.com/MISC/KB/en-us/131/896.HTM https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.microsoft.com/MISC/KB/...
- avisser 2y ago
  This is screaming for a Raymond Chen post explaining the strange-but-true history behind it.
  - ok123456 2y ago
    The first item on the list is pretty glaring: "Thread creation is not supported." This would be a show-stopper for a lot of things.
Lammy 2y ago
The ‘s’ does stand for ‘subset’ after all :)