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   Jeff Gaines to All   
   Re: Alternative to Optical Storage????   
   05 Oct 24 08:42:31   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: jgnewsid@outlook.com   
      
   On 05/10/2024 in message  Joel   
   wrote:   
      
   >"Jeff Gaines"  wrote:   
   >>On 05/10/2024 in message <4ni1gjhb2adbl8uagkarl0ujb6cb3big8i@4ax.com> Joel   
   >>wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>Obviously, XP and other ancient OSes don't share any code with Win11 -   
   >>>but the foundation of Vista was XP 64-bit/Server2003.   
   >>   
   >>I can assure you that the Windows API used by Windows 98 is alive and well   
   >>and driving every Windows OS since then. Programs I wrote for Win 68 still   
   >>run perfectly well on Win 10/11. The only change has been the introduction   
   >>of 64 bit versions of the various DLLs.   
   >   
   >   
   >I'm aware that the API isn't unique to NT.   
      
   Absolutely, the code is shared across all versions of Windows.   
      
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