Subj : Re: Operating Systems
To   : tenser
From : fusion
Date : Wed Apr 10 2024 04:06 pm

On 11 Apr 2024, tenser said the following...
 
 te> On 10 Apr 2024 at 12:17p, fusion pondered and said...
 te>  
 te>  fu> apparently microsoft has just gotten their intel-on-arm emulation
 te>  fu> matched in speed with apple's. pretty likely we're going to have
 te>  fu> official support for win32 (the api) and x86 & x86_64 for more than 1
 te>  fu> years..
 te> 
 te> What "Win32" means has changed over time and continues to evolve.
 te> What DOS programs require for compatibility may fall under some
 te> broad umbrella of "Win32" but support for 32-bit programs running
 te> directly on hardware will fall away.  Clearly, if MSFT moves
 te> Windows to ARM-based systems, that will be the case anyway.  I
 te> feel fully confident saying that, in 2038, DOS programs will only
 te> run in an emulator.

there's a reason i quoted what i did and what i didn't. my post isn't about dos support at all.

"win32" means the windows api. (it's right there where i said it in parenthesis). it has nothing to do with it being 32-bit, and microsoft uses it that way all over their website.

i think there's a pretty hefty distinction between "officially supported by microsoft" and what you implied. there won't be effort involved in emulating it. most people won't know they are.

as an example: dos has been emulated while windows is running since windows/386 (2.0). i'm not sure why you're suggesting it will suddenly be again in 2038 ;)

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