Running with coordinate transformations and the pitfalls of asynchronous code
Remember when the Windows Start Menu was a pure thing, unsullied by ads and decades of tinkering? Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has shared his role in bringing an iconic piece of Windows 95 into the world of Windows NT.
"But could you do it on Windows NT? Well, not directly, but Windows NT provided something called Coordinate Transformations that allowed you to do things like rotate the entire device context. If you did that by 90 degrees and gave it the right Coordinate Transformations then you could magically draw into it and it would render it directly up."Plummer also spoke of the pain of moving from the NetBEUI networking stack of Windows 95 to the TCP/IP preferred by Windows NT.
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