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Comment by TylerE

6 hours ago

Perhaps the best example I can think of is the whole situation

InstallShield is....massive crapware and actually generated 16 bit installers way way after anyone was using 16bit PCs. Nobody notices until, I think it was W8 or W10 dropped support for running 16bit executables (something about dropping the subsystem that supported them.

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dtech  6 hours ago

It was 64-bit Windows versions, 16 bit was never supported not even on XP 64-bit. I think W8 was the first 64-bit only Windows.

  • EvanAnderson  6 hours ago

    Windows 11 was the first 64-bit only build of the NT-based Windows tree. There are 32-bit x86 builds of all previous versions.

  • fredoralive  6 hours ago

    Windows 11 drops IA32, and thus (first party) MS-DOS and Windows 3.x support.

    Windows actually has some special cased support for (at least some of) the problematic 16 bit InstallShield installers to run a 32 bit version instead on AMD64.