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To: MineralMan
all the Win 3.1 apps I wrote back in the 90s still run perfectly in XP

Do you mean win32?

9 posted on 01/25/2006 7:34:30 AM PST by palmer (Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
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To: palmer

"Do you mean win32?"

Nope. All my windows apps were written for the 16-bit version of Windows. That they still run perfectly in XP, but were written for Windows 3.1 is amazing to me. There's no reason that XP should be expected to run 16-bit Windows software, but it does, and perfectly.

My software makes many calls to old .dll libraries. It also does stuff that is completely different in XP, such as font installation and getting font information. Yet, .dlls I wrote to do font stuff still work just fine.

It's amazing. And it's another example of why the XP source code is going to be virtually impossible to decipher for anyone not intimately involved in its creation.


17 posted on 01/25/2006 8:00:55 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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