| ▲ | Uvix 4 days ago | |
I don't know if Windows started as a porting layer but it certainly ended up as one. Windows was already on v2.x by the time Excel was released on PC, but the initial PC version of Excel shipped with a stripped-down copy of Windows so that it could still run on machines without Windows. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241112-00/?p=11... | ||
| ▲ | p_l 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Before Windows 3.0 made a big splash, it was major source of Windows revenue - bundling a stripped down windows runtime with applications as GUI SDK. Windows 3.0 effort was initially disguised as update for this before management could be convinced to support the project. | ||
| ▲ | 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
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