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Windows 11 still carries Windows 95's memory manager inside it
Original: Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it
A report examines why Windows 11 continues to ship with the memory manager first introduced in Windows 95, roughly three decades later. The piece explains that the core memory management code has been carried forward through every Windows release for compatibility reasons, and readers are debating the trade-offs between legacy support and modernising the operating system's foundations.
Why now: People are surprised and curious that such old foundational code persists in a modern operating system, sparking discussion about legacy compatibility versus technical debt.
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