Jan 16, 2024 4 8 What is a hard error, and what makes it harder than an easy error? Raymond Chen A throwback to the early days of 16-bit Windows.
Dec 25, 2023 3 4 That time the Word team sent presents to the children of WordPerfect’s executive vice president Raymond Chen No, it wasn't creepy.
Dec 5, 2023 6 7 What was the code name for 64-bit Windows? Raymond Chen Sundown, which was a hidden jab at the competition.
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.