Comment by notepad0x90

I was playing with some asm code and generating a.out with nasm, got stuck on why it wouldn't load..turns out linux stopped supporting it. When they say "no one uses it" they mean packages and stuff, they don't care about private code you have lying around and other use cases. With a widely deployed platform like windows, they can't assume things like that. There are certainly very valid business application that go back decades. There are literally systems that have 20+ years up time out there.