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		monstermonster on Oct 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus Actually no. You can take a program from the "MSDOS Encyclopaedia" which contains a windows 2.0 programming section, type it out in notepad on a windows 8.1 box, compile it and it will run now like it did in 1988. I tried it. It works. That's what I'm talking about. The kernel and CLR are irrelevant. Proof: the same program works on Wine on Linux after it is compiled.

scholia on Oct 15, 2014 [–]

And a bran new Intel Core-M chip will execute an antique x86 instruction. So obviously that proves nothing has changed ;-)

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