• OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    Sorry, what’s .Net again?

    The runtime? You mean .Net, or .Net Core, or .Net Framework? Oh, you mean a web framework in .Net. Was that Asp.Net or AspNetcore?

    Remind me why we let the “Can’t call it Windows 9” company design our enterprise language?

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        9 months ago

        May I introduce you to Usb 3.x renaming?

        3.0, 3.1Gen1, 3.2Gen1, 3.2Gen1x1 are the 5Gbps version.

        3.1Gen2, 3.2Gen2, 3.2Gen1x2, 3.2Gen2x1 are the 10Gbps version.

    • Can’t call it Windows 9

      But that actually made sense! They care about backwards compatibility.

      For those not in the know: some legacy software checked if the OS name began with “Windows 9” to differentiate between 95 and future versions.

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        9 months ago

        some legacy software checked if the OS name began with “Windows 9” to differentiate between 95 and future versions.

        This is a myth. Windows doesn’t even have an API to give you the marketing name of the OS. Internally, Windows 95 is version 4.0 and Windows 98 is 4.1. The API to get the version returns the major and minor version separately, so to check for Windows 95 you’d check if majorVersion = 4 and minorVersion = 0.

        Edit: This is the return type from the API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winnt/ns-winnt-osversioninfoexa

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        9 months ago

        The reason they checked that it started with “Windows 9” was because it worked for “Windows 95” and “Windows 98”

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          9 months ago

          Because it checks if the version starts with the string “Windows 9*”, not wether the number is less than 9.