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Relatedly, 30 years ago someone attempted to turn the Windows 3.1 API into an ISO standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_Programming_Interface_for

Relatedly, 30 years ago someone attempted to turn the Windows 3.1 API into an ISO standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_Programming_Interface_for_Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_Programming_Interf... It didn't become one, but it did become standardised as ECMA-234: https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-234/ https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st...

eru 1y ago
Well, Wine shows that Win32 is the only stable ABI, even on Linux.
- GoblinSlayer 1y ago
  >On May 5, 1993, Sun Microsystems announced Windows Application Binary Interface (WABI), a product to run Windows software on Unix, and the Public Windows Interface (PWI) initiative, an effort to standardize a subset of the popular 16-bit Windows APIs. >In February 1994, the PWI Specification Committee sent a draft specification to X/Open—who rejected it in March, after being threatened by Microsoft's assertion of intellectual property rights (IPR) over the Windows APIs Looks like that's what it was.