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by matheusmoreira
1854 days ago
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> Microsoft knew that, so they made sure to be ABI compatible so they could keep updating the OS. I don't remember it that way. I remember buying motherboards and receiving CDs full of drivers for the many Windows versions. I remember having to scour the internet for drivers and finding a different one for each Windows version. I remember failing to find drivers for new versions of Windows because the manufacturer couldn't care less. I remember incredibly shitty manufacturer applications that took over one minute to display a window on the screen. I even managed to reverse engineer one of those into a free software user space driver. |
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There haven't been "many" Windows versions in the entire existence of Windows. I bet you don't remember getting different drivers for every service pack or security update.