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by ChrisSD 2333 days ago
Arguably, the kludge is supporting Win32 on an NT kernel. The win32 layer on top of NT is a mess of backwards compatibility hacks with more modern NT and NTFS features hammered in. The native NT layer is much better but officially it's unstable.

Compared to that, Windows 9x was less kludge and more a straightforward implementation of Win32, though of course lacking modern features.