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- From: unclesam@mailhost.cyberhighway.net (Samuel S. Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amigas and Whiners....
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 15:45:10 GMT
- Organization: CyberHighway Internet Services
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- On 29-Jan-96 00:26:46, Mark Worden (mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca)
- remarked:
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- ...
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- MW> As for not complaining all the time about such-and-such a program
- MW> not running under older versions of the OS, I agree that some
- MW> people need to upgrade. But I still think it would be
- MW> beneficial for most Amiga programmers to still support, at the
- MW> very least, WB 2.0.
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- At the very LEAST???? Are you really meaning to imply that they
- should even *think* of supporting 1.3???
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- MW> That's not too much to ask, is it?
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- Yes, it is. You are then asking them to emulate or avoid v.3.X
- enhancements, to maintain an extra set of manuals, and to use
- RomSwitcher or some other means of using outdated operating systems
- for testing. The cost of upgrading is much less than the cost of
- upgrading Macs or of just the extra RAM needed to run Windoze '95.
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- Samuel S. Johnson unclesam@cyberhighway.net Meridian, Idaho, USA
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- Windows is a colorful clown suit for DOS.
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