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thundara  ·  3545 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Microsoft Is Phasing Out Internet Explorer

Hey, I can still run .exes from 2 decades ago. Mind you many of them break on the individual APIs, but they also distribute legacy / fixed library versions and they never went full-Apple and dropped support for an entire architecture. Just as long as you don't use web (open, bad!) technologies... or trident... or silverlight...





kleinbl00  ·  3545 days ago  ·  link  ·  
thundara  ·  3545 days ago  ·  link  ·  

3rd party emus don't count as native support :-P

kleinbl00  ·  3544 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My dad has software originally written in CPM. Executables were written for DOS back in '88. They can be run in NT4.0. XP? Not so much.

So he emulates.

mk  ·  3545 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My god, what a wonderful flashback.

kleinbl00  ·  3545 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Kafke  ·  3545 days ago  ·  link  ·  

At least OS X has modern architecture. Who the fuck wants to run a system that's over 2 decades old?

thundara  ·  3545 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey, I hear good things about dx12, and there are plenty of libraries on Windows that are better than on other OSs, it's just that whole closed source locked in platform that I dislike

Kafke  ·  3545 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    it's just that whole closed source

So basically you dislike anything but linux :P.

Nah, I'm just giving it a hard time. Windows is alright. It's old as fuck and has legacy support for pretty much any software under the sun. Apple decided to take the other route, scrap all support for a fresh-reboot with a more modern architecture.

You'd be surprised at how little you (or at least me) miss when you actually switch over. I think the biggest thing is certain enterprise software and games. That's pretty much it.

thundara  ·  3545 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm willing to be a cuck, but it requires the closed system be worth it, and even then being open is always better for the software