• Tobias Schmidl@augsburg.social
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    2 days ago

    @ashleythorne true! But the Win32 ABI was the “holy grail” of Microsoft. You can run a Win95 application written under Borland C++ today! That they even _considering_ of breaking that, would be *unthinkable* a few years ago.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      There was some experiment they did in the mid 2000a that was also going to be completely incompatible. It went nowhere.