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- From: gfm@gnu.ai.mit.edu (George Francis McBay)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: @$#^@$%# 2.04!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.174803.29630@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 17:48:03 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.022407.26450@Armstrong.EDU>
- Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
- Reply-To: gfm@gnu.ai.mit.edu.UUCP (George Francis McBay)
- Organization: Free Software Foundation
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- In article <1992Jul24.022407.26450@Armstrong.EDU> prall968@Armstrong.EDU writes:
- >So then why is all this stuff now out for 2.0.. Whatever happened to downward
- >compatibility?
-
- As far as I know, it never existed... Upward compatiblity is a great
- asset as far as software goes, but downward compatibility isn't as highly
- regarded (Unless a vast majority of users still use an older OS version)
- WB2.0 has many features not available in lesser versions (A lot of people would
- argue that they SHOULD have been in lesser versions and Commodore is just
- really slow :) And as far as I can tell this is on par with other computer
- systems, scads of Mac/IBM software require a minimum DOS/System number, so
- it's not as if Amiga programmers are doing something wrong :)
-
- Anyways..
-