Post by @corbin@social.corbin.io

"For a while I’ve been wondering about a silly question, which is, what’s the oldest application with a GUI that will still run on Windows 11 without modifications or emulation." #retro

https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/

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Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

A blog post about finding the oldest Windows application with a GUI that still runs on Windows 11

#retro

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Faraiwe

@faraiwe@mstdn.social 2 hr. ago

@corbin ...Linux installer?

Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус

@jschwart@mas.to 2 hr. ago

@faraiwe @corbin would be neat to look for the oldest binary that runs without modifications or emulation on the latest Linux version. Likely it will be an even older binary.

Bringing in the oldest binary that will run against the latest GNU userland, likely would give the opposite result :)

Faraiwe

@faraiwe@mstdn.social 1 hr. ago

@jschwart @corbin joking aside, what's the oldest Linux Live-Demo able installation, that would fly from Win desktop, then?

Corbin Davenport

@corbin@social.corbin.io 1 hr. ago

@faraiwe @jschwart I feel like Linux would be worse for binary backwards compatibility bc the kernel doesn’t prioritize ABI, and you’d have dependency hell with some packages, but I have not tested that at all