Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:47:32 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c Message-ID: <4230A454.8030502@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4230A3B7.1000402@portaone.com> 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> <42308769.5080506@samsco.org> <4230A3B7.1000402@portaone.com>
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Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > >> 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? > > > Well, know what? This is really bad example. For what MS can't be > blaimed it is the lack of forward and backward compatibility. I still > can run Office 2003 on Windows 95 without any problems. > > -Maxim Well, the only reason this is possible is because MSWord ships with a complete set of system DLLs with MSWord that act as compatibility shims. But yes, it was a poor example and an unsuccessful attempt at humor on my part. Scott
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