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You're right, I've conflated MSI with .CAB which was used back in the floppy era.
by pjc50 1y ago
You're right, I've conflated MSI with .CAB which was used back in the floppy era.
- WorldMaker 1y agoCAB is a format like ZIP. MSIs are fun because they use CAB files under the hood. But also a database format from the Microsoft JET Engine that was an ancient predecessor to the Windows Registry and contemporary/counterpart of the Office Access format at the time. It's really interesting to compare MSI to MSIX which is ZIP/XML instead of CAB/weird JET DB file.