Reply to post: Re: Maybe Windows 3.1 was a sweet spot?

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dajames

Re: Maybe Windows 3.1 was a sweet spot?

I'm of the opinion that there is a much better chance that a Windows 3.1 binary will run than a huge number of applications written for versions of Windows since then.

Were it not for the fact that Windows 3.1 binaries had to be written to run on Intel's 16-bit segmented architecture you might be right.

Methinks the opportunities for creating bugs that were presented by that architecture were so numerous that anything written for any 32-bit version of Windows has a much better chance of working.

... or were you talking about NT 3.1? If you were you have a point.

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