А и вправду был С++96
А он сильно отличался от С++98?
1992 STL implemented in C++
1998 C++98 (ISO/IEC 14882:1998)
New features: RTTI (dynamic_cast, typeid), covariant return types, cast operators, mutable, bool, declarations in conditions, template instantiations, member templates, export
Library additions: locales, bitset, valarray, auto_ptr, templatized string, iostream, and complex.
Based on STL: containers, algorithms, iterators, function objects