sanitation@lemmy.radio to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoMicrosoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11 — ancient Win32 API still the backbone, but CTO says it's 'more relevant than ever in 2026'www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square89linkfedilinkarrow-up1269arrow-down15
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minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 days agoARM was based on 1975’s MOS 6502, star of the NES, Apple ][ and Atari 2600.
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIt kind of annoys me that ARM is a second order abbreviation. IDK why.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoSurely there’s an acronym where the A stands for ARM, which would be sure to annoy you even more.
ARM was based on 1975’s MOS 6502, star of the NES, Apple ][ and Atari 2600.
And c64 :')
…and PET…
It kind of annoys me that ARM is a second order abbreviation. IDK why.
Surely there’s an acronym where the A stands for ARM, which would be sure to annoy you even more.