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Re:Why should anyone ever use a Google API again? by naa42 on Friday May 27, 2011 @06:12PM (#2593262)
With DOS emulator. There is no problem to run DOS app from 80s on Linux/MacOS/whatever with dosbox. By the way, dosbox is far better for some apps than DOS emulator from Windows XP/Vista/7.
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Re:Why should anyone ever use a Google API again? by nikcub on Friday May 27, 2011 @06:58PM (#2593353)
you are not understanding the issue here. we are talking about the windows API - they have supported every aspect of it in a backwards compatible way since its inception.

read the Raymond Chen blog about how they used SimCity as a benchmark to test if their backwards compat was working. Marc Andreessen is even on the record as being an admirer of the Windows backwards compat work. they put a lot of work into it and placed a high value on it because they did not want to break developer trust.

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