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		whobre 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In Defense of C++ > C++ is very old, in fact, it came out in 1985, to put it into perspective, that’s 4 years before the first version of Windows was released Nitpick, I guess, but Windows 1.0 was released in November 1985: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

DerekL 3 months ago | [–]

True, but hardly anyone used it until Windows 3, or even 3.1.

rightbyte 3 months ago | [–]

Funny how silly Windows 1 looks compared to Mac OS 1. I wonder if it was the color support taking resources.

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