Comment by ladon86
14 years ago
Specifically, Windows actually checked whether SimCity was running and then allocated memory differently if it was.
Joel Spolsky talks about it in this old article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html
More about Microsoft and backward compatibility is here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
There's a blog run by Raymond Chen, one of the engineers on the backwards compat team, which is about backwards compat and other arcane aspects of Windows:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/
The part about millions of people sending millions of checks to companies really hit me. Why are Americans still using checks? I haven't seen one in more than a decade.
Bank transfers basically aren't supported by anyone you'd like to give a large sum of money to, so you have to write them a check.