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| From | David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software" |
| Date | 2019-12-10 15:49 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <qsob91$j0b$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <slrnquu0pd.ri0.nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> <qsnjmg$i46$1@dont-email.me> <slrnquur2s.s8i.nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> <qsnref$pse$1@dont-email.me> <slrnquv0rv.sd8.nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> |
On 10/12/2019 12:37, Ned Latham wrote: > David Brown wrote: >> Ned Latham wrote: >>> David Brown wrote: >>>> Ned Latham wrote: >>>>> Ian Collins wrote: >>>>>> Ned Latham wrote: >>>>>>> Scott Lurndal wrote: >>>>>>>> Ned Latham writes: >>>>>>>>> Scott Lurndal wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> NT3.51 and NT4.0 (Win2k) both contained portions of Windows >>>>>>>>>> 3.1 in the so-called 'Windows on Windows' subsystem. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> IOW, a partial emulator? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> WoW used the intel vm86 mode to execute pure win3.1 code. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Amazing. I cannot fathom why anyone would want backwards compatibility >>>>>>> with such a dud. >>>>>> >>>>>> Games. >>>>> >>>>> That's pathetic. (No wonder they called it WoW.) >>>> >>>> That is either blatant snobbery, or you are seriously out of touch with >>>> the technological world. >>> >>> Or maybe I'm just aware of how much better modern games are than the games >>> of those days were. >> >> There are different opinions on that - people vary significantly on the >> kind of game they like. You don't get many new players of old games, >> but old players can often keep their old games for quite a while - long >> after they have changed to newer versions of other software. And WoW >> comes from the early NT days - the main consumer OS was 16-bit Windows >> (with gradually increasing 32-bit proportions) until Windows XP in 2001. > > I thought about reasons for bothering to create a win3.1 emulator; it > occurs to me that there would have been aq lot of corporate migration > from 3.1 to NT. Sure, that was critical at the time - lots of software was written for 16-bit Windows, and people needed to run it on 32-bit NT. And it became steadily less relevant over time. You are unlikely to find many people wanting to run 16-bit Windows software /now/ in a corporate setting. If you look at tools aimed at running old software, there is a strong focus on games - because that is a big use-case. > >>>> Games are not the only use for old software and emulation, but they are >>>> a very substantial part of it. >>> >>> Your reply implied that in this case they are the whole of it. As a reason >>> for going to the bother of installing a win3.1 emulator, that's pathetic. >> >> That comment implies you have mixed up posters in this thread. > > You're right. It was Ian Collins. > >> But yes, I expect that playing old games is a fairly common reason (but >> certainly not the only reason) for installing a Win 3.1 emulator on a >> newer system. That does not mean it is something many people will do in >> absolute terms. >> >> And no, it is not pathetic. You don't get to judge people's preferences >> as "pathetic" just because they have a favourite game that was written >> long ago. That is definitely snobbery. > > Don't put words in my mouth. Especially when *my* words are still here, in > this post, giving the lie to your crap. > You have twice said that it is "pathetic" that people would use Win 3.1 support software to run games. How is that to be interpreted other than as saying it is "pathetic" that people would want to run old games? You can answer that if you like, but I think this thread branch is going nowhere and is clearly off-topic.
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