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0 pointsblibble2y ago0 comments

well yes

however it sort of undermines the "insane compatibility" / "stable API" point if mass-market Windows software produced before the 2001 release of XP mostly doesn't work on modern Windows

NT effectively forked Win32 (introduced with Windows 3.1) into something incompatible

(meanwhile it all runs on Wine perfectly fine)

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pjmlp2y ago

What? Windows NT never forked anything.

Windows 3.1 introduced Win16 protected mode with segmented memory.

Win32s was a backport from a Win32 subset from Windows NT 4.0.

Windows NT linage exists since 1993.

sillywalk2y ago

I remember Win32s, I think Netscape Navigator needed it. I was thinking Lode Runner, but that was WinG.

I always thought it was backported from Windows 95, thanks for the info.

dboreham2y ago

Iirc Win32s existed before Win95.

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