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- From: jochoa@utdallas.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amigas and Whiners....
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 20:51:39 -0600
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- On 29 Jan 1996 15:45:10 GMT, Samuel S. Johnson scribbled the following:
- >On 29-Jan-96 00:26:46, Mark Worden (mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca)
- >remarked:
- > 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.
- >At the very LEAST???? Are you really meaning to imply that they
- >should even *think* of supporting 1.3???
- > MW> That's not too much to ask, is it?
- >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.
-
- Amen.
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