Retrocompile

After coming back from hitatus, I decided to embark on the simple project of compiling Word from source code. It turned out not be so simple …

Windows for Workgroups was one of the more underrated versions of Windows. While WIndows 95 would formally mark Microsoft’s domination of the desktop, Workgroups would form the basis where many the less prominent but still important underlying changes would be.

Hello World programs are a programmer’s introduction to a new environment. So what did Windows 1.0’s hello program look like, and what did it take to compile it?