>Word is basically an operating system.

And .doc files are basically a memory dump.

galangalalgol 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That was certainly true once, but now all that state is serialized to xml amd zipped up. You can unzip it and look at it if you don't value your sanity.

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oblio 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So what you're saying is that the files are basically a memory dump formatted as XML? :-p

	▲	galangalalgol 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A selective menory dump that when deserialized can ignore fields not present its version, but yeah.

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someguyiguess 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Dump is a great word for it