State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?

Re:State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistenci... by aasasd on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:24AM (#27557741)

> retain the ability to run programs written a quarter of a decade ago

I think I've seen computers with more uninterrupted uptime than that, even if servers. Or at least approaching this figure.

Perhaps you meant ‘quarter of a millennium’ or something like that.

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Re:State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistenci... by Stratoscope on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:51AM (#27558146)

I know Enterprise customers require extreme backward compatibility, but it must be a fairly small number who are still running legacy code written in 1771.

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Re:State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistenci... by aasasd on Saturday June 19, 2021 @02:37AM (#27558319)

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/jacquard-loom-simulator/

https://github.com/jfinkels/analyticalengine

https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/emulator.html

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Re:State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistenci... by Stratoscope on Saturday June 19, 2021 @03:02AM (#27558422)

I stand corrected, and awed. Thank you!

I had the good fortune to see the Babbage Engine in action when it was at the Computer History Museum. Only got a few photos, but here they are (plus an unrelated photo of a core memory plane):

https://geary.smugmug.com/Computers/History/

https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/

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