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The idea of running Rust code on Windows 95 is very funny to me. Two completely different universes colliding.
by School-Cotton 11mo ago
The idea of running Rust code on Windows 95 is very funny to me. Two completely different universes colliding.
- sedatk 11mo agoIIRC, somebody ran .NET on Windows 3.1.
- lifthrasiir 11mo agoI think it was Windows 95: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUMNtKQLl8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUMNtKQLl8
- userbinator 11mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22010159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22010159 3.11, Win32s (so still using 32-bit, not 16-bit code.)
- sedatk 11mo agoYes, that one!
- haunter 11mo agoThe reverse of that is running 16bit Windows 1.x/2.x/3.x apps on 64bit Windows 10/11 https://github.com/otya128/winevdm https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
- wongarsu 11mo agoIn my mind the most common cases of people running ancient operating systems are computers in control of hardware. Plenty of hardware lasts much longer than 30 years, consequently there's still stuff out there that shipped with Windows 95 and never got new drivers. If you want new software for that environment Rust sounds like a great choice
- rkagerer 11mo agoIndeed. Though these days, some prefer older Windows as the new ones are abjectly worse, along all the axes they care about.
- self_awareness 11mo agoWell, there was also Java on Amiga project: https://www.mikekohn.net/micro/amiga_java.php https://www.mikekohn.net/micro/amiga_java.php