"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Darren New wrote:
> > Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> >> Because almost no software will run on it any more.
> >> Seriously. I'd still be using WinNT if it wasn't for that.
> >
> > Now consider why it might be that new software doesn't run on old OSes,
> > even tho the old software runs on the new OSes.  Maybe it's because the
> > new OSes provide more services and functionality that the programmers
> > like to take advantage of to make their lives easier?
>
> More likely M$ rearranged some API to induce an artificial dependency,
> but anyway...

Actually, one of their requirements is backward compatability, at least til
XP. Stuff that ran on 98 should still run on XP. It way require enabling
compat modes, but it should run. That's for stuff that used the APIs as they
were designed to be used. For stuff that used undocumented features and
bugs, all bets are off however

There's a tale about a workaround that was put into one version of the OS (I
think it was win 95) to allow SimCity to work on the newer OS. Simcity had
been depending on a bug that was fixed in the newer version, and hence it
didn't run.

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