Probably yeah, but now they've officially released it under the MIT license so stuff like Wine could now potentially borrow some code to improve compatibility with Windows

[–] capital@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That thought occurred to me but is code this old even still relevant at all?

I ask this as someone who writes simple scripts and would never call themselves a coder.

[–] 2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For the most part probably not, but Microsoft cares a lot about backwards compatibility so I imagine some of this code still lives on in Windows

Though you should take this with a grain of salt, since I'm saying this as someone who 1. never looked at Wine source code 2. used the Windows API only once, for a very small program 3. is still learning programming, so I wouldn't call myself a coder (yet) either

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

yeah there are even still some remaining windows 3.0 dialogues used in the latest win11

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

As someone with an IBM PS/1 running 4.0, I'm excited to be able to modify it, distribute it, etc