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[–] SternburgExport@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it sure can install these programs but thei'll either run like dogshit or not at all.

[–] rockslice@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

While not confirmed (AFAIK), it's likely we went from Windows 8 straight to 10. With 95/98 being so similar, it wasn't rare for software to recognize it by looking for "Windows 9" in the OS name.

[–] tomve_cz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm playing first Doom (yeah that Doom from 1993) on my laptop with Win 10

[–] Supermuff@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair a pc playing doom isn't that impressive. That game runs on litterally everything

[–] DrDooom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Thinking like that is how I bricked my blender.

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My dosbox and multiple attempts to build VMs of windows 3.1 say this isn't completely true

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[–] riskable@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, install your 25-year-old software on your 30-year-old NTFS filesystem (it's that old).

EDIT: I just looked it up and NTFS turns 30 on July 27th, 2023 LOL

[–] eltimablo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Weren't they working on some database-like replacement for it a while ago?

[–] awake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe so, but all that spaghetti code to ensure the backwards compatibility comes at a cost of endless Windows jank.

I use both Windows and Mac machines for my audio work and while everything is consistently just 'plug and play' on my Mac, on the PC side I'm constantly fighting a losing battle with Windows ASIO audio driver issues, multi-monitor issues, Microsoft constantly asking me to make an account every 3 days...

For gaming, I love Windows. Still yet to find anything it does better and with less fuss than MacOS in a work environment though.

[–] Dreth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have to send files from my Mac to my PC in order to get them printed cause my old printer's driver won't work with the newer MacOS but they work fine on windows 11.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Printer support is hard mode for the IT support crew. An old printer is a minor miracle if you have working drivers.

[–] okawari@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This has been a great boon to me. Whenever Apple upgrades Mac OS, I check my regional equivalent to craigslist for cheap music gear that stops working. Has worked twice for me. I got a really nice 24 channel audio interface for 20 bucks.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's because somewhere deep inside every x64/x86 compatible processor is an 8086 from 1980. The architecture has more or less remained the same for 40 years with more and more shit piled on top.

You can literally still natively boot DOS from a floppy on a modern PC if you can get it to recognize and boot from a USB floppy drive and it has legacy boot enabled. You wont get very far without drivers for anything, but you'll get to the command prompt.

[–] Leer10@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More than that tho, windows aims to preserve library compatibility with older software.

It's common for older games for Mac on the same architecture to break or become uninstallable on newer OS versions.

Edit: Fun rabbit hole time! Windows XP had a specific patch to allow Legoland to play with improper coding that was only removed in Windows 10 https://youtu.be/MToTEqoVv3I

[–] printerjammed@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

For real. We run windows server R 2008 or something at work, never update it. Works like a dream with our other less ancient servers

[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thaat can't possibly be secure... or can it?

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It'll depend entirely on whether it's connected to any kind of externally available network.

Even airgapped, it's just asking to be hacked.

[–] e-ratic@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

That's... not great

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