Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262437AbTFWMCv (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:02:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265263AbTFWMCv (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:02:51 -0400 Received: from 34.mufa.noln.chcgil24.dsl.att.net ([12.100.181.34]:46328 "EHLO tabby.cats.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262437AbTFWMCu (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:02:50 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Jesse Pollard To: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:16:31 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <063301c32c47$ddc792d0$3f00a8c0@witbe> <20030621143416.31978fc2.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <03062307163100.31982@tabby> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 960 Lines: 22 On Saturday 21 June 2003 07:55, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: [snip] > Backward compatibility is the mantra of successful software. Without > it, you simply won't accumulate an user base. You may want to read the > article by Pat Gelsinger (sp?) in the last c't magazine. He did talk > about processors, but software is the same thing. Look where the two > companies that did put this above everything else are (HW: Intel SW: > Microsoft)? And IA32 applications run on IA64 without recompiling???? Or worse, a 286 app runs on IA64... How about a 186... No. sorry. There are limits to backward compatability.. Even M$ 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/