What happened to the ability to use … (three dots) to refer to the grandparent directory? February 2, 2016 Feb 2, 2016 02/2/16 Raymond Chen An old NetWare compatibility hack.
What makes XCOPY so X? January 19, 2016 Jan 19, 2016 01/19/16 Raymond Chen It's extra awesome. But I don't know what the X stands for.
Why are Windows setup logs stored in a Panther directory? Does it have anything to do with the abandoned Panther project from the precursor to Windows 95? December 29, 2015 Dec 29, 2015 12/29/15 Raymond Chen Unrelated.
Why doesn’t findstr use the standard regular expression library? December 9, 2015 Dec 9, 2015 12/9/15 Raymond Chen What standard regular expression library?
Why did disabling interrupts cause Windows 95 to hang? December 4, 2015 Dec 4, 2015 12/4/15 Raymond Chen Because compatibility.
What does Ctrl+Enter mean? It depends on whom you ask December 1, 2015 Dec 1, 2015 12/1/15 Raymond Chen Maybe it enters a soft return, maybe it sends a command.
Oh, that’s probably why I’m in the Quake credits November 11, 2015 Nov 11, 2015 11/11/15 Raymond Chen I'm touching you!
How do you get network connectivity from the worst PC in the world? September 10, 2015 Sep 10, 2015 09/10/15 Raymond Chen Can't use an expansion slot.
The Windows 95 I/O system assumed that if it wrote a byte, then it could read it back August 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015 08/27/15 Raymond Chen Stands to reason.
Windows started picking up the really big pieces of TerminateThread garbage on the sidewalk, but it’s still garbage on the sidewalk August 14, 2015 Aug 14, 2015 08/14/15 Raymond Chen So stop throwing garbage on the sidewalk.