[HN Gopher] Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c ___________________________________________________________________ Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c Author : Narishma Score : 19 points Date : 2020-05-25 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (virtuallyfun.com) (TXT) w3m dump (virtuallyfun.com) | pantalaimon wrote: | It's pretty impressive that binaries from Windows 1.0 still | manage to run on Windows 10. | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-05-25 23:00 UTC)