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Were they so much smarter than the programers of today?

The average programmer back then was probably far more knowledgeable of the low-level details.

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Software seems to have quality and capability as diametrically opposed attributes.
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https://github.com/alexfreud/winamp : does indeed look like classic Win32 in the files I randomly tried, although there's also a QT DLL and a whole load of other stuff on there.
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Yes, of course they were smarter.
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