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		Conscat on May 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Still Use Windows 95 (2008) Windows 7 didn't have IO rings or Unix domain sockets, which will prohibit running an increasing amount of future software.

asveikau on May 17, 2023 [–]

Windows NT has had async I/O and named pipes from the beginning. The API isn't identical to what you described but the concepts are similar enough to port higher level primitives.

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