As a reminder, it was far more difficult to "ship an update" for games in 1995. The web was just getting started. Games showed up on CDs, often bought off shelves, in actual stores.
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I realized this during reading and it's nice of them to confirm it. It's weird to read all those LLM tells while also feeling the text is coherent and makes sense.
Raymond Chen of Microsoft explained why they go through the effort of coding a lot of special-case compatibility shims for other's misbehaving apps. It's to remove obstacles that prevent customers from upgrading Windows.
(The urls from microsoft.com load very slowly for some reason so may have to use Wayback Machine instead.)
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 18.9 ms ] threadI realized this during reading and it's nice of them to confirm it. It's weird to read all those LLM tells while also feeling the text is coherent and makes sense.
(The urls from microsoft.com load very slowly for some reason so may have to use Wayback Machine instead.)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050824-11/?p=34...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031224-00/?p=41...
https://web.archive.org/web/20190315130516/https://devblogs....
https://web.archive.org/web/20190315121601/https://devblogs....