Subj : Re: Operating Systems
To   : fusion
From : tenser
Date : Thu Apr 11 2024 06:20:00

On 10 Apr 2024 at 12:17p, fusion pondered and said...
 
 fu> apparently microsoft has just gotten their intel-on-arm emulation
 fu> matched in speed with apple's. pretty likely we're going to have
 fu> official support for win32 (the api) and x86 & x86_64 for more than 14
 fu> years..

What "Win32" means has changed over time and continues to evolve.
What DOS programs require for compatibility may fall under some
broad umbrella of "Win32" but support for 32-bit programs running
directly on hardware will fall away.  Clearly, if MSFT moves
Windows to ARM-based systems, that will be the case anyway.  I
feel fully confident saying that, in 2038, DOS programs will only
run in an emulator.

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