Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 09:13:56 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 07:31:32 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
 

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 11:12:41 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
 

It was *horrible*, the 80386 was a breath of fresh air.

 
Sure it was. Except it was only giving the Intel market what the users
of other CPUs (Motorola, NatSemi) had been enjoying for years.

 
Sure there's always plenty of fresh air in the fields but this was
in the sewer.

And then it took the Windows/DOS world about another decade to transition
to properly 32-bit APIs.

And there it seems to have got stuck: even on today’s 64-bit machines,
Windows programs still use “Win32”.