Did you see when someone ported thousands of Windows 98 apps over to Windows 95 by implementing .NET into the latter? If you haven’t, you may be tempted to think: “Why go through such a huge effort over an ancient operating system?” The guy behind the feat said that he did so because Windows 95 was very dear to him, and heavily influenced his decision to get into computing. And for that, I can see why he did what he did.
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