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[–] 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

why the fuck system32 is 64bits and syswow64 is 32bits, i hate microsoft

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Because 16 bit reasons. Also a lot of Windows API is called Win32 regardless of the used bits, as it was the API created for Windows 95 and NT 4.0 originally, with some things added onto it later, and even some kind of deprecated parts

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