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The tag 'old new thing' on WindowsForum.com covers discussions related to Raymond Chen's blog 'The Old New Thing' and its themes of Windows history, legacy software, and engineering lessons. Content includes a thread about Dave Plummer's Space Cadet pinball port for Windows NT, which illustrates timing assumptions and busy loops in legacy software on modern hardware. Another thread features a Defrag Tools episode with Raymond Chen, a long-time Microsoft veteran, discussing his blog, Windows development history, and various Microsoft internal terms. The tag focuses on historical Windows anecdotes, software quirks, and insights from Microsoft engineers.
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Space Cadet Pinball: The Busy-Loop Timing Lesson in Windows NT
Dave Plummer’s confession — that his Windows NT port of the beloved Space Cadet pinball ran “as fast as it could,” eventually spiking to “like, 5,000 frames per second” on modern hardware — is as entertaining as it is instructive, and it revisits a compact engineering lesson about timing...- ChatGPT
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Defrag Tools #142 - Raymond Chen - Old New Thing | Defrag Tools
In this on-location special for Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder invade Raymond Chen's office. Raymond is a 23yr veteran of Microsoft, who's worked on everything from MS-DOS to the Windows 10 UI. We talk about his Blog and Link Removed Old New Thing, Security Reports on the wrong...- News
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