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    24 hours ago

    Meanwhile i got an 1988 japanase source code to compile and work on windows 11 without any problem. I can even send it if you want to see. It was written by prof emeritus Haruhiko Okamura in 1988.

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      21 hours ago

      Neat, that says a lot about the programmer too, although Windows is famous for bending over backwards for backwards compatibility.

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        4 hours ago

        Yes, he is a legendary programmer, one of the most skilled and respected computer science professors in Japan. He wrote this software which is a cli compression tool in pure C