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userbinatortoday at 2:05 AM2 repliesview on HN

It wasn't until fairly recently

By "recently" you mean Win95? MSVCRT.DLL has been there for at least that long.


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gmueckltoday at 2:31 AM

I believe that it technically belongs to Visual C++, not the operating system, but it needs to ship with the OS because the user space binaries are compiled with MSVC.

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dborehamtoday at 2:45 AM

It was there but mystery meat vs whatever version you might need for your binary.

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