Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] | | Date | Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:16:31 -0500 |
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On Saturday 21 June 2003 07:55, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: [snip] > Backward compatibility is the mantra of successful software. Without > it, you simply won't accumulate an user base. You may want to read the > article by Pat Gelsinger (sp?) in the last c't magazine. He did talk > about processors, but software is the same thing. Look where the two > companies that did put this above everything else are (HW: Intel SW: > Microsoft)?
And IA32 applications run on IA64 without recompiling???? Or worse, a 286 app runs on IA64... How about a 186...
No. sorry. There are limits to backward compatability.. Even M$ is dropping that...which is why their server 2003 doesn't run some (a lot of?) NT 3/4 apps. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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