Comment by umanwizard
13 hours ago
The idea of running Rust code on Windows 95 is very funny to me. Two completely different universes colliding.
13 hours ago
The idea of running Rust code on Windows 95 is very funny to me. Two completely different universes colliding.
In my mind the most common cases of people running ancient operating systems are computers in control of hardware. Plenty of hardware lasts much longer than 30 years, consequently there's still stuff out there that shipped with Windows 95 and never got new drivers. If you want new software for that environment Rust sounds like a great choice
Indeed. Though these days, some prefer older Windows as the new ones are abjectly worse, along all the axes they care about.
IIRC, somebody ran .NET on Windows 3.1.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22010159
3.11, Win32s (so still using 32-bit, not 16-bit code.)
Yes, that one!
The reverse of that is running 16bit Windows 1.x/2.x/3.x apps on 64bit Windows 10/11 https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
I think it was Windows 95: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUMNtKQLl8