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saratogacx | 14 days ago

If I recall, MSDN was super expensive but that is because it included non-commercial licenses for just about everything Microsoft shipped as well as getting hard copies of the documentation and a bunch of other stuff.

If you just wanted to do c++ windows programming you can get visual studio which, I believe, did come with Win32 documentation (especially as CD roms became common distro methods).

The c++ software development kit itself (just libraries, documentation, and samples, no tooling) wasn't too expensive and was mainly material costs.

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markus_zhang|14 days ago

I always drool over those paper documents. Imagining myself getting into some underground facility due to WW3 and hacking on some old computers reading those manuals is one of my comforts.