Windows internals
by Matt Pietrek · first published 1993
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Before Windows Internals book we all know (called Inside Windows NT in its first editions), there was Windows Internals and other books and articles by Matt Pietrek. It starts from disassembly of WIN.COM studying the insides…
on “Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux” ↗…3.1 did not add Win32S. > > Win32S was an optional extra: a separate download and was never included with any version of Windows 3.x. Andrew Schulman (in Unauthorized Windows 95) and Matt Pietrek (in Windows Internals) both describe the Windows 3.1 EXE loader as shipping with special case code for detecting PE executables. Win32s was an add on to Windows 3.1, but Windows 3.1 shipped out of the box with the necessary…
on “How Microsoft faked errors in Windows 3 on top of DR DOS” ↗> AFAICR after some 30y, none of them included Win32S as standard. I didn't say that. Let's walk through what I did say. > Andrew Schulman (in Unauthorized Windows 95) and Matt Pietrek (in Windows Internals) both describe the Windows 3.1 EXE loader as shipping with special case code for detecting PE executable This is a citation of two books I have in my basement. I double checked both of them while writing…
on “How Microsoft faked errors in Windows 3 on top of DR DOS” ↗