[issue44835] What does "Python for Windows will still be Python for DOS" mean?

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters <tim at python.org> added the comment:

The CPython Windows installer has a "thank you" box at the end:

"""
Special Windows thanks to Mark Hammond, without whose years of freely shared Windows expertise, Python for Windows would still be Python for DOS.
"""

There was no support for Windows in Python's earliest releases, and Mark Hammond did heroic work adding Windows support.

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