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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>
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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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