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by elwes5 2207 days ago
The amount of crazy things people did in win3.x was pretty amazing. MS kind of did it to themselves. Want to know what an HWIN looks like? Right there in the header. No functions to access those items. Now you can not change that struct without breaking hundreds of programs. I remember the other devs grumbling that the win9x headers did not have the system structs in there. What was just an update into an a pointer deref became 'which method do I need to change this feature now...' game. That MS pulled that compat job off and did not absolutely obliterate everything I have to admire.