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Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by foepys on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @01:25AM (#22682181)
A lot of people are making fun of Microsoft but most of them don't know or appreciate that you can run software compiled in the 90s on the most recent Windows 10 1909 without problems. Microsoft's backwards compatibility is off the charts.

Try that with macOS.

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Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by Zardoz84 on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @02:59AM (#22682546)
Well... Windows 10 have the record of the being the only windows that breaks backwards compatibility sometimes. I saw Visual Basic 5/6 applications stooping to work because Microsoft break something on a update.

Also, good luck trying to run any Windows 16 bit application on a modern Windows 64 bit installation.

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Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by tim-- on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @03:05AM (#22682562)
> Also, good luck trying to run any Windows 16 bit application on a modern Windows 64 bit installation.

The officially supported method is to have Windows 10 (32 bit) running in HyperV. There is no 16 bit support in Windows 10 64bit builds.

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Re:CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any offici... by battery_cowboy on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @02:38PM (#22687222)
I can run Ubuntu now without worrying about hardware compatibility and I can play video games, all from Windows. I'm a fan.
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