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Re:Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable ver... by wizzwizz4 on Monday August 30, 2021 @03:42PM (#28360024)
I don't remember Raymond Chen ever lying. If there weren't legitimate reasons, Raymond would just not talk about them. Especially since this would be a very elaborate, multi-faceted lie that anybody with an intermediate knowledge of the inner workings of Windows 9x would've been able to call out.
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Re:Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable ver... by AshamedCaptain on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:27PM (#28361055)
Raymond Chen may not intentionally lie, but he can be wrong and has been wrong in the past. One obvious example that I remember is when he said that the reason Pinball.exe disappeared from Windows Vista was because they couldn't port it to 64 bits. And yet as I read every single clickbait newssite parrot what he was saying, I was literally playing 64-bit Pinball.exe on a standard Windows XP x64 edition ...

The comments in his blog disappear every time Microsoft shuffles it around, so these discussions are lost forever.

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Re:Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable ver... by mananaysiempre on Monday August 30, 2021 @06:51PM (#28361873)
Not lost, for now: <http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/index.htm>. (Thankfully, MSDN blog comments didn’t require JavaScript, or they would now be lost...) Here’s the Pinball piece, for example: <http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20121218_294_...>.
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Re:Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable ver... by aoetalks on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:12AM (#28365550)
It was probably the 32 bit version of pinball, running on 64 bit windows via WoW64
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Re:Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable ver... by AshamedCaptain on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @06:15AM (#28366000)
No. Easily distinguishable by the * (or lack of it) in task manager.
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Re:Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable ver... by dmead on Monday August 30, 2021 @04:13PM (#28360359)
I guess I'm expecting lies of omission here. My guess is that content on Microsoft's blogs, especially about this period is cleared with legal before anything goes up.
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