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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:47:39 -0000 (UTC), Gremlin wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:53:43 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:31:32 -0000 (UTC), Gremlin wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I appreciate human readable text file configurations.   
   >>   
   >> Funnily enough, Windows had that, in the form of .INI files that   
   >> were quite popular among Windows/DOS apps in the days before   
   >> Windows 95 and Windows NT.   
   >   
   > I'm well aware. The windows 9x series was a glorified DOS shell   
   > though. The NT family wasn't.   
      
   That was no reason why Windows NT couldn’t have supported Unix-style   
   text-based config files. But no, Dave Cutler was a Unix-hater, working   
   for a company that seemed very much built on the assumption that the   
   Unix way of doing things had to be “inefficient”, so they had to   
   invent different ways. Binary config files are better than text? Turns   
   out they’re not.   
      
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