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Old January 13th 19, 03:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Tim Slattery[_2_]
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Steve Hayes wrote:

On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:00:28 -0700, "Bill in Co"
surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote:

Steve Hayes wrote:
"Apps" is short for "Applications Programs", as opposed to systems
programs and utilities.

Apps are what you use your computer FOR, as opposed to programs that
enable the keyboard to communicate with CPU, the screen to display
stuff, things to be written to the disk drives etc.


OK, so basically what we used to call our useful software programs in the
pre-Windows 10 era is now called "apps", and it's just a change in
terminology. And those "apps" are still just exe files.

I'm used to the term apps only for Android devices, where that terminology
is standard.


"Applications" was in use long before Windows or Androis were
invented. I remember it from 1982 or thereabouts, in the days of CP/M

And most of them were .com files. I don't remember the term "apps" until smartphones.


*.com files were the simplest executables possible. They were 16-bit
code that was simply loaded into RAM and executed, without any kind of
editing. They used the "tiny" memory model, which meant (IIRC) 64KB of
code and 64KB of data.) Modern executables (exe files) contain
relocatable code, as well as menus, cursors, bitmaps, and language to
notify the loader of required DLLs.

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