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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (12 children)

I have literally never had one of these things happen to me before. I'm pretty sure people just make them up for clicks at this point.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 32 points 4 days ago (7 children)
[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (6 children)

the 16-bit Windows on Windows subsystems, which allowed 32-bit versions of Windows to directly run 16-bit DOS and Windows programs

Jesus, what a scam. Why does anyone put up with this?

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

IMO, the Windows Subsystems is kind of cool. WSL 1 used it too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AWindows_2000_architecture.svg

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