How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

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Post by ayi » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 4:23 PM UTC

How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
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Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

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Post by JojoFatsani » Sat, Nov 22, 2025, 12:30 AM UTC

Really wish someone would just take the win95 UI code and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel

Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

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Post by hulitu » Mon, Nov 24, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

JojoFatsani wrote: post #2

Really wish someone would just take the win95 UI code and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel

> and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel

It won't compile.

Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

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Post by speed_spread » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 4:46 AM UTC

I prefer to believe they just merged the two branches in SourceSafe.

Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

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Post by plorkyeran » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 4:49 AM UTC

speed_spread wrote: post #4

I prefer to believe they just merged the two branches in SourceSafe.

Microsoft never used SourceSafe for anything important internally.

Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

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Post by onlogn » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 5:09 AM UTC

plorkyeran wrote: post #5

speed_spread wrote: post #4

I prefer to believe they just merged the two branches in SourceSafe.

Microsoft never used SourceSafe for anything important internally.

Hmm. Not sure I agree. The initial CLR for .net was in vss. Maybe it wasn’t important, but bonus points if you know why.

Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

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Post by bombcar » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 5:40 AM UTC

hulitu wrote: post #3

JojoFatsani wrote: post #2

Really wish someone would just take the win95 UI code and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel

> and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel It won't compile.

Probably the 10 extra bits.

Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

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Post by saghm » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 5:44 AM UTC

bombcar wrote: post #7

hulitu wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel It won't compile.

Probably the 10 extra bits.

The extra 84 win have to go somewhere

Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

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Post by kachapopopow » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 5:50 AM UTC

saghm wrote: post #8

bombcar wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably the 10 extra bits.

The extra 84 win have to go somewhere

11 more and it will run on win95 again.

Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

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Post by Traubenfuchs » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 5:52 AM UTC

speed_spread wrote: post #4

I prefer to believe they just merged the two branches in SourceSafe.

Personally, I enjoyed MS source safe and exclusive file locking.