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by dmd 4196 days ago
Windows still runs software from the 1980s and 1990s without much complaint. DOS software, Windows 3.1 software...
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chris_wot 4196 days ago
Amusingly, you can run that software under Linux also.
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xorcist 4196 days ago
Not really. The decision to require applications to open ports, as opposed to just bind them, broke pretty much all networked software on Windows in the 00s. That's just one example where software may run but doesn't work. It's complicated.
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