[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 17:41:20 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:

> Note that the Windows API is, by design, opaque to application
> programs ...

Worse than that, it is poorly specified. Compare POSIX, where it is not 
just the functionality of each call that is documented, but also the 
possible error conditions and what they mean. This is missing from the 
Win32 API docs.

This is why the WINE project, for example, took 15 years to get to version 
1.0: because they had to determine all the possible error paths in Win32 
by exhaustive search.

Jeremy Allison goes into detail about this here
<https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/
tale_two_stds_os2.html>.