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by TheOtherHobbes 2517 days ago
What are the odds the strategy only works because it runs on a VAX?
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rbanffy 2517 days ago
Close to zero.
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rbanffy 2516 days ago
One interesting case is the Pinball game that came with Windows. IIRC, it relied on 32-bit x86 features that failed on 64-bit machines.
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lallysingh 2516 days ago
Or the code is such a mess that nobody understands it will enough to port or replicate?
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