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[โ€“] ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was about to say that most apps should check the NT number but then I remembered that until XP it wasn't common to run a NT system, but then I remembered NT 4 existed basically in the same timeframe as 95 did, and even if the argument went to "it's a 9x application", shouldn't these OSes at least have some sort of build number or different identifier systems? Because as I said NT systems were around, so they would probably need a check for that

[โ€“] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Some programs just didn't work on NT though. A lot of installers were more OS specific back then.