[HN Gopher] Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c
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       Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c
        
       Author : Narishma
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2020-05-25 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | pantalaimon wrote:
       | It's pretty impressive that binaries from Windows 1.0 still
       | manage to run on Windows 10.
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       | I wish desktop Linux had even a fraction of that level of
       | backwards compatibility.
        
       | smitty1e wrote:
       | > I was inspired to investigate the original HELLO.C for Windows
       | 1.0, a 125 line behemoth that was talked about in hush tones.
       | 
       | Should that have been "125k line"? Not to get too pedantic, but
       | the units seem needful for "behemoth".
        
         | CyberDildonics wrote:
         | No, windows did not require a 125 thousand line program to
         | display hello world.
        
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