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Paul Richards wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:06:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> 
>>Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>>Imagine something like Photoshop being written on the most recent
>>>version of Mac OS X and finding that compatibility only worked
>>>forward.  That would mean that most users out there would have to
>>>upgrade their OS in order to use the most recent version of Photoshop!
>>
>>Yes, that is usually how it goes.
> 
> 
> I don't believe it does. Can anyone provide real world examples of
> this happening that we can consider?
> 

You know, I'm completely outraged that I can't use MSWord 2005 on my 
Windows 3.1 system!  I even installed the win32s library!  Don't those 
bozos at Microsoft care at all about forwards compatibility?

Scott