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old-new-win32api
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Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
Do you have any recommendations?
I assume this is the one you’re talking about https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
I was curious, went to the end (page 699!) and it’s pretty interesting. But obviously it’s hard to find the important ones.
- Frontman of Weezer, Rivers Cuomo, is an active developer on GitHub
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Windows NT: Peeking into the Cradle
Not quite. DOS was just the bootloader for Windows 9x.
While Windows 95's kernel didn't have the full feature set of NT, it still was more sophisticated than DOS.
Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=24063
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KSP2 is spamming the Windows Registry until the game stops working permanently
Some registry keys also have The Old New Thing posts by Raymond Chen [1] /s
[1] https://github.com/mity/old-new-win32api#registry
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Lookin for a decent C++ data structure resource
Lucky you, Raymond Chen did an overview in his blog series "Inside STL". You can view it here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
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Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane
Yes, Raymond Chen describes such fixes in [several blog posts](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/) and in his book The Old New Thing. Check the old posts, back at the beginning. There are posts about to which lengths they went to ensure buggy applications still worked after an update or a fix.
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Is there a known reason that Vista's startup screen was so plain?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
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Technical articles recommendation
A couple of blogs as an example: - Raymond Chen - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ - Pavel Yosifovich - https://scorpiosoftware.net/ - Adam Sawicki - https://asawicki.info/index - Matt Pettineo - https://therealmjp.github.io/ - Scratchapixel - https://www.scratchapixel.com/
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Ask HN: Who are tech bloggers with a good archive?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
- Why is the FAT directory creation time 24 bits and not 16 bits like the modified time?
proposal-canonical-tz
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Why I Spent a Week on a 10-Line Code Change
JS/ECMA is about to make timezones so much more fun.
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Updates from the 95th TC39 meeting
Time Zone Canonicalization: TC39 Proposal (stacked on Temporal) to improve handling of changes to the IANA Time Zone Database.
What are some alternatives?
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