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the great vast majority of software simply runs on windows, with straightforward exceptions for some games, because the win32 api is unbelievably stable.
winsock is unchanged as well because TCP/IP solidified a long time ago, so, network software also works. I think they even had NDIS, so your modern network card is likely to work. I think the only reason you can't run 3.51 now is because they broke A20 line control in EFI
turns out since I last tested this it has stopped being so true. in fact, I'm not sure exactly what I DID test last time. A lot of DLLs appear to have changed that I'm positive worked in the past and - hey, you saw the screenshots I posted.
so it's real, but, it's not as straightforward as I believed.
like I tried to run UT99 and it was missing some dll functions even after updating to sp5. maybe the non goty edition is needed, but that's still egg on my face
if it won't run a version of the game from a couple years later then my thesis is still wrong. I also couldn't get VLC, putty, firefox 1/2, ancient opera, MPC-HC, process monitor or many other things to run
I thought of repeating this experiment on nt4 but what's the point really
I found out that while winsock hasn't changed - and I can even mount a shared drive from win10 - winsock2 was never released for 3.x, so some software is impossible to run
