@nyx also a lot of them come from Russian or third world Windows security developers, for example ELBRUS the architecture built with REFAL supercomputing in mind also has a x86/Windows legacy support subsystem if I'm not mistaken

the guy that clocked me as a schizo grew up getting software from Siberian cracked CD vendors in flea markets that sold dev kits with instruction files and IDE packages like turbo pascal or turbo assembler