From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 09:13:56 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 07:31:32 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 11:12:41 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > It was *horrible*, the 80386 was a breath of fresh air.   
   >>   
   >> Sure it was. Except it was only giving the Intel market what the users   
   >> of other CPUs (Motorola, NatSemi) had been enjoying for years.   
   >   
   > Sure there's always plenty of fresh air in the fields but this was   
   > in the sewer.   
      
   And then it took the Windows/DOS world about another decade to transition   
   to properly 32-bit APIs.   
      
   And there it seems to have got stuck: even on today’s 64-bit machines,   
   Windows programs still use “Win32”.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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