Improbably, because I had no idea which way was up, I did some contract work for Adobe bridging AutoCAD with Curo (a doc mgmt something). Win16 to Win32. Or vice-versa, I can't remember. "Thunking." An apt name. Seems like it shouldn't have even worked.
> thank the Java Hype Cycle if you had a non shitty thread implementation
I'm sure. I helped "Alligator Descartes" with the Magician OpenGL bindings for Java, around the time of Java3D. After much fussing, I managed to reliably get multiple contexts to render in sync. On Windows at least. Thank god for Doug Lea's work. Watching a bunch of cubes spin, each in their own window, was pretty neat for the time.