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by thedudemabry 2600 days ago
Agreed. As a former MS-focused engineer in a previous life, I was constantly surprised by how many executables just continued to work 20 years after authorship. It's a different set of tradeoffs than other OSs have made, but a really remarkable one.
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Gog.com makes their living specifically by updating games that no longer work on modern versions of Windows.
> Gog.com makes their living specifically by updating games that no longer work on modern versions of Windows.

Many old games that GOG distributes are not written for Windows, but for DOS.