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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by johannes1234321 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:37PM (#35633016)
> Windows backwards compatibility is also pretty phenomenal if you know what you're doing.

Windows backwards compatibility is also pretty phenomenal if you DON'T know what you're doing and are important enough.

There is the famous case about Windows 95 detecting SimCity and then switching to a more careful memory manager as SimCity had quite some use after free problems, which would crash otherwise.

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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by omoikane on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @07:49PM (#35634729)
SimCity's use-after-free bug:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii...

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