Katherine the SixthMar 15

me: well this is stupid, why did IBM sneak specifically Photoshop support under Win32s 1.30 and nothing else

ArcaOS: "we don't actually have a copy of the Win-OS2 source because it's encumbered by god knows how many companies"

me: i am once again asking myself how did i get here

Show threadKatherine the SixthMar 15

thunks from hell

16-bit Windows calling a 32-bit driver pretending to be three VXDs in the VDM context which calls out to undocumented hooks in the OS/2 kernel to let Win32s allocations work

Show threadKatherine the SixthMar 15
i wouldn't know how the fuck any of this works if it wasn't my day job
Show threadRairii   Mar 17
@luigithirty you're reversing win-os/2 *for your day job*?
Show threadKatherine the Sixth
@Rairii No, no, my day job is CPU simulation so I'm intimately familiar with x86 OS memory management
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