Post AxebaSWPqA224J6Fyy by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
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(DIR) Post #AxebaSWPqA224J6Fyy by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2025-08-29T02:45:52Z
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I know this is one of those things that dates someone but I found this very funny :) #humor #RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #AxebaTwKZIM6SyET0y by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2025-08-29T06:46:06.786131Z
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It's interesting why that happened, since the underlying application locked and couldn't repaint itself when it was given invalidation boxes. Today this doesn't happen because most systems render to a composer.
(DIR) Post #AxfS1icZHr4bR0IUc4 by mls14@social.vivaldi.net
2025-08-29T13:25:22Z
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@djsumdog @hankg It happened because Microsoft was absolute crap. Some things never change!
(DIR) Post #AxfS1jidCnW8q68qhc by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2025-08-29T16:33:51.406967Z
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X11/Linux would do the same thing back then. Probably the old OS9 too? Most graphical systems used validated/invalidated rectangles. When KDE/Gnome implemented composition, the window would dim if the application stopped responding.