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pjmlplast Sunday at 9:14 PM0 repliesview on HN

Small correction.

On PC, MS-DOS did not use C, rather interrupts and there was no common C ABI.

On OS/2, a mix of C ABI and SOM, with C, C++ and Smalltalk as main languages.

Windows started only with the C ABI, nowadays it is a mix of C, C++, .NET, COM, WinRT, depending on the subsystem.