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Win32 is the ugliest part of Windows, to me. I like seeing the lower level "native" NT bits being re-implemented. (I think NT itself is a pretty elegant OS. I'd
by EvanAnderson 13y ago
Win32 is the ugliest part of Windows, to me. I like seeing the lower level "native" NT bits being re-implemented. (I think NT itself is a pretty elegant OS. I'd love to see a "distribution" of NT with a POSIX personality and no Win32.)
- orthecreedence 13y agoOddly enough, as someone who was fluent in SoftICE, I almost cringed when NT surpassed Win32. I love Windows 7 now...the interface is second to none and I don't have to reinstall the OS every 3 months, but sometimes I miss the days where if a program didn't do what I wanted, I could have it grovelling at my feet within 30 minutes. This was great for either sniffing out serial numbers or getting unlimited health in games. I know there are good NT debuggers around nowadays, but nothing really beats loading in at ring0 on Win32 =].
- frozenport 13y agoThis is weird statement. The Win32 subsystem is what most people encounter as Windows and unless you try hard your software will target that. The Native API includes calls like throwing a bluescreen and halting OS execution.