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Windows itself has a great backwards compatibility story - but the Internet doesn't, so the moment you have to communicate with the outside world, you need to d
by TeMPOraL 1y ago
Windows itself has a great backwards compatibility story - but the Internet doesn't, so the moment you have to communicate with the outside world, you need to deal with the high churn culture of modern software.
- daemin 1y agoI can still run my old executables that I compiled back in 2002 and 2003 on my current Windows computers. I don't think I could do that with anything that was compiled for Linux or MacOS back then. I wouldn't want to do that with anything that opens ports on my computer that was compiled back then.