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0 pointsrogerdb6y ago0 comments

I'd argue that of any software project on the planet, Windows is the closest to having unlimited resources; especially when you consider the number of Windows customers for whom backwards compatibility is the #1 feature on the box.

And speed isn't the only metric that matters; having both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of DLLs uses a non-trivial (to some people) amount of disk space, bandwidth, complexity, etc.

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Wowfunhappy6y ago

Surely, Apple and Google have just about as many resources as Microsoft does.

If Android, Mac OS, etc were super slimmed down systems in comparison to Windows, I would understand the argument much better. Instead, it feels like we're in the worst of both worlds.

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0 pointsrogerdb6y ago0 comments

And speed isn't the only metric that matters; having both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of DLLs uses a non-trivial (to some people) amount of disk space, bandwidth, complexity, etc.

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Wowfunhappy6y ago

Surely, Apple and Google have just about as many resources as Microsoft does.

If Android, Mac OS, etc were super slimmed down systems in comparison to Windows, I would understand the argument much better. Instead, it feels like we're in the worst of both worlds.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse