Nov 27, 2023 3 4 In Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, what is a “grabber”? Raymond Chen It grabbed your MS-DOS screen and put it into a window.
Oct 20, 2023 0 0 On the failed unrealized promise of RegOverridePredefKey Raymond Chen An early attempt to sandbox the registry for a process.
Oct 3, 2023 1 5 A complaint about Links the Cat, the Office assistant Raymond Chen Do all cats do that?
Sep 26, 2023 8 5 Why is kernel32.dll running in user mode and not kernel mode, like its name implies? Raymond Chen It's just a name, and it comes from the days before user-mode/kernel-mode separation.
Sep 19, 2023 3 2 Why did the 16-bit _lopen and _lcreat function return -1 on failure instead of 0? Raymond Chen Trying to look like somebody else.
Sep 4, 2023 9 2 Just for fun: What happens when you shift a register by more than the register size? Raymond Chen A comparative study of processor architectures.
Aug 29, 2023 10 2 The popularity of DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility a little easier, but with higher stakes Raymond Chen A popular path to protected mode.
Aug 28, 2023 4 2 Just for fun: Which processors prefer sign-extended loads, and which prefer zero-extended loads? Raymond Chen Another pointless chart.
Mar 14, 2023 4 1 Did Vienna ever exist or was it just misinformation? Raymond Chen It could be neither.