Mar 28, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count4 Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Virtual memory Raymond Chen Memory access is uniform and free, right?
Mar 21, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Were there specific criteria for making a game work at all costs vs. leaving it be if it had problems too weird to debug? Raymond Chen It was basically up to me.
Mar 1, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 You kids are so cute, thinking you invented email Raymond Chen It predated the Internet, you know.
Feb 2, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count2 What happened to the ability to use … (three dots) to refer to the grandparent directory? Raymond Chen An old NetWare compatibility hack.
Jan 19, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 What makes XCOPY so X? Raymond Chen It's extra awesome. But I don't know what the X stands for.
Dec 29, 2015 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 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? Raymond Chen Unrelated.
Dec 9, 2015 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Why doesn’t findstr use the standard regular expression library? Raymond Chen What standard regular expression library?
Dec 4, 2015 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Why did disabling interrupts cause Windows 95 to hang? Raymond Chen Because compatibility.
Dec 1, 2015 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 What does Ctrl+Enter mean? It depends on whom you ask Raymond Chen Maybe it enters a soft return, maybe it sends a command.
Nov 11, 2015 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Oh, that’s probably why I’m in the Quake credits Raymond Chen I'm touching you!