alt Hacker NewsMicrosoft 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.
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.