Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:44:09 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c Message-ID: <42308769.5080506@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050310171917.GQ98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk> References: <422E407B.4080507@portaone.com> <86k6oht386.fsf@xps.des.no> <422F087F.9030906@portaone.com> <20050309.085035.129356491.imp@bsdimp.com> <422F6703.70409@portaone.com> <20050310161607.GO98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk> <86d5u7fn1z.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050310171917.GQ98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk>
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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
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