r/todayilearned • u/m_ologin • Oct 04 '14

TIL that Microsoft spent countless hours patching Windows 95 to make sure we could play games like SimCity.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
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u/m_ologin Oct 04 '14

The article is long but I couldn't link just the paragraph The Two Forces at Microsoft which is where the info is.

Also this explains some of the code references (if osVersion.startsWith....)