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m463today at 1:01 AM1 replyview on HN

Even more fun is pointers, especially when windows / macos were switching from 32-bits to 64-bits (in different ways).


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WalterBrighttoday at 2:40 AM

Microsoft tried valiantly to make Win16 code portable to Win32, and Win32 to Win64. But it failed miserably, apparently because the programmers had never ported 16 bit C to 32 bit C, etc., and picked all the wrong abstractions.