Warp wrote:
> Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
>> Vista's getting a lot of angry comments now and it hasn't got it's
>> footprint out (yet). If MS broke backward compatibility totally now, how
>> would you think Vista would be selling?
> 
>   I don't believe too many people would complain if Vista broke
> compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS (which would be approximately
> the same thing MacOS X has done).
> 
>   (OTOH, I don't really know if Vista actually has done that. I assume
> it hasn't.)

I hear that AMD64 [finally] breaks compatibility with certain really 
ancient x86 stuff. But I don't have any technical data on that...

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