The popularity of DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility a little easier, but with higher stakes August 29, 2023 Aug 29, 2023 08/29/23 Raymond Chen A popular path to protected mode.
Just for fun: Which processors prefer sign-extended loads, and which prefer zero-extended loads? August 28, 2023 Aug 28, 2023 08/28/23 Raymond Chen Another pointless chart.
Did Vienna ever exist or was it just misinformation? March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23 Raymond Chen It could be neither.
The unintentionally-expanding scope of the SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX flag February 27, 2023 Feb 27, 2023 02/27/23 Raymond Chen Other suppressions caught in its net.
Why are the Windows chassis hardware button hotkeys so strange? February 14, 2023 Feb 14, 2023 02/14/23 Raymond Chen Operating within the constraints of the system.
The frustration of finding a suitable time to hold a meeting when the participants are evenly spaced around the globe February 7, 2023 Feb 7, 2023 02/7/23 Raymond Chen Somebody has to suffer, but we try to make sure it's not the same person each time.
The worst-selling Microsoft software product of all time: OS/2 for the Mach 20 December 26, 2022 Dec 26, 2022 12/26/22 Raymond Chen Count 'em on one hand.
Why is there a system sound called Asterisk? What sound does an Asterisk make anyway? November 8, 2022 Nov 8, 2022 11/8/22 Raymond Chen It's to accompany the asterisk, back when we had an asterisk.
Why are many Windows user interface elements positioned at multiples of 4 or 8 pixels? October 25, 2022 Oct 25, 2022 10/25/22 Raymond Chen It depends on whose pixels you're talking about.
Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers, follow-up September 20, 2022 Sep 20, 2022 09/20/22 Raymond Chen Deeper speculation by others.