Collaborate Disseminate
In this sidebar to the Programming Windows series, a key architect of the first IBM PC defends the machine’s design years later.
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Early GUIs like Windows were easy to use, but they also provided advanced system-level features like cross-application data sharing.
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6 weeks ago, I set out to tell the history of Windows from a different perspective. Here’s a quick progress report on that work.
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MFC allowed C++ developers to quickly generate skeleton code for even the most complex of Windows applications. After that, they were on their own.
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After it finally shipped Windows NT, Microsoft spent the next five years steadily improving the product until it could replace MS-DOS and Windows.
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Between 1991 and 1993, Microsoft dogfooded its own code and fought feature creep and bugs as it raced to release Windows NT.
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Before there was Windows NT, there was NT, a 32-bit portable operating system that would run multiple OS personalities.
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Before diving into the Microsoft Foundation Class library, I thought it might be a good idea to say hello to MFC with a bit of source code.
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OOPs! By the 1990s, Windows application developers were consumed by the move to Object-Oriented Programming, or OOP.
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Say hello to C++, an object-oriented superset of C that is still one of the most popular programming languages in the world.
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