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Relevant Old New Thing post: "The real cost of compatibility is not in the hacks; the hacks are small potatoes"

(The Old New Thing is a blog by veteran Microsoft shell team developer Raymond Chen, and it's a must-read for all developers.)

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/07/23/4003...

Real example I heard on internship interview at MS:

Printers lie. Printers have embedded fonts and when you can use them instead rendering the text in software, the results end up better. But printers lie about which fonts they have and which characters are represented in them, so Word has (or used to have) this very big lookup table that basically tells "if you're printing on printer X from vendor Y, don't trust what it says about fonts and just send rendered text to it".

> One of the things that's held back Windows

It's also one of the things that's kept Windows strong.

Windows 95 contains special memory management code for the original Sim City, but I suppose that probably got removed with all the other 16-bit supporting files in x64 versions of Windows, at least. Perhaps it's still hanging around in 32-bit Windows 7, though?

Imagine legacy stuff and standards on the web after 32 years!

You can always start investigating yourself first! :)

Ero is actually planning to release his other 2 commercial diagrams, that you can see http://blog.dkbza.org/2007/10/openrceorg-goodies.html in preview He's just lacking motivation ATM, so contact him if you're interested.

I don't control any of these sadly. the image is easily viewable at http://imgur.com/a/t33Rr though.

No big difference: unlike what I initially thought, the JPG didn't look much better or worse than the PNG, with a similar filesize.

because you do not deserve better if your browser supports neither PDF nor SVG?

Or sad. Depending on your outlook ;)