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dmd
on Dec 30, 2014
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A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
Windows still runs software from the 1980s and 1990s without much complaint. DOS software, Windows 3.1 software...
chris_wot
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Amusingly, you can run that software under Linux also.
xorcist
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Not really. The decision to require applications to open ports, as opposed to just bind them, broke pretty much all networked software on Windows in the 00s. That's just one example where software may run but doesn't work. It's complicated.
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