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Re:A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012) by dmd on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @08:58AM (#8814580)
Windows still runs software from the 1980s and 1990s without much complaint. DOS software, Windows 3.1 software...
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Re:A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012) by chris_wot on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @11:08AM (#8815120)
Amusingly, you can run that software under Linux also.
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Re:A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012) by xorcist on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @06:06PM (#8817261)
Not really. The decision to require applications to open ports, as opposed to just bind them, broke pretty much all networked software on Windows in the 00s. That's just one example where software may run but doesn't work. It's complicated.
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