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Perhaps these apps were already well beyond supported? I don't use anything except 1Password on the list at the link and the current supported version is 7. Version 2.x would have been sometime and many security updates ago, non?


Perhaps these apps were already well beyond supported?

Some of them are more than beyond supported. They're completely useless and unnecessary.

There are programs on there for connecting to PCMCIA modems and Palm Pilots.

That said, there is one item on that list that affects me, but I know that I've been avoiding a $299 upgrade for years, so it's not completely unexpected.


Just because the developer doesn't support something anymore doesn't mean I stop wanting to use it.

Theres also some games from relatively big names (Riot, Valve) that don't work. On one hand they had plenty of time to update. But OTOH with this and the OpenGL deprecation, maybe they saw the writing on the wall from Apple


On Windows it is perfectly reasonable to expect aps running even if they are 20 or sometimes 30 years old.


64 bit Windows doesn’t run 16 bit Windows code.


https://youtu.be/8WP7AkJo3OE

Yes and no. You can run progman and file manager on modern windows. Hell, you can run DOS aps.


That's the 32 bit version. Without 64 bit support I wouldn't call it 'modern windows'. There's a reason almost nobody uses it.




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