| ▲ | cesarb 6 hours ago | |
> I don't understand why Microsoft chose to kill it. My personal suspicion: it's about handles. Several kinds of objects in the Windows API are identified by global handles (for instance, HWND for a window), and on 16-bit Windows, these handles are limited to 16 bits (though I vaguely recall reading somewhere that they're actually limited to 15 bits). Not having the possibility of a 16-bit Windows process would allow them to increase the global limit on the number of handles (keeping in mind that controls like buttons are actually nested windows, so it's not just one window handle for each top-level window). | ||
| ▲ | ack_complete 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
No need for suspicion, the documentation confirms this was a factor: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/ru... | ||