Thomas Jollans schreef op 20/02/2019 om 12:48:
I'm fairly sure "win32" was used on W9x as well.
Indeed, it was used for all 32-bit Windows versions: both the 9x line
and the NT line. There were differences, of course. For example there
are many calls that take SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES parameters. On 9x those
parameters simply didn't do anything.
In any case it *was*
correct at the time, as early versions of Python also ran on DOS and
Windows 3.1. "windows" would not have been suitable.
The API in Windows 3.1 (and 3.0 and 3.11 I suppose) was called the
Windows API at the time, later renamed to Win16 to distinguish it from
Win32 in the newer 32-bit Windows versions.
And then there was also Win32s, a subset of the real Win32 used on
Windows 3.1. And WinCE, but let's not go there.
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