• Luna
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    267 months ago

    Probably yeah, but now they’ve officially released it under the MIT license so stuff like Wine could now potentially borrow some code to improve compatibility with Windows

    • capital
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      7 months ago

      That thought occurred to me but is code this old even still relevant at all?

      I ask this as someone who writes simple scripts and would never call themselves a coder.

      • Luna
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        57 months ago

        For the most part probably not, but Microsoft cares a lot about backwards compatibility so I imagine some of this code still lives on in Windows

        Though you should take this with a grain of salt, since I’m saying this as someone who 1. never looked at Wine source code 2. used the Windows API only once, for a very small program 3. is still learning programming, so I wouldn’t call myself a coder (yet) either

        • voxel
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          7 months ago

          yeah there are even still some remaining windows 3.0 dialogues used in the latest win11

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          As someone with an IBM PS/1 running 4.0, I’m excited to be able to modify it, distribute it, etc