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Comment by userbinator

4 years ago

Biggest difference would probably be the complete lack of multithreading.

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zozbot234  4 years ago

Win32s applications (like Win16 applications more generally) run in a shared address space with cooperative multitasking. They're basically async applications within an OS-provided runtime.

seritools  4 years ago

Oh right, that's also a thing :v

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