| From: | Tim Seifert |
| Date: | 31 Mar 2001 at 12:47:28 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: St. Louis? |
_Replying to a message_
By: Tony Cooke <ajcooke@vivamiga.u-net.com>
To: Tim Seifert <dopus5@lss.com.au>
On: Saturday, March 31, 2001, 1:46:46 AM
Re: [D5] Re: St. Louis?
Hi Tony,
TS>>>> It's up to the applications to be coded to suit the OS, not the
TS>>>> other way around.
P£>>> It is up to the OS NOT to break the rules set up for the
P£>>> applications programming.
TS>> What part of this don't people understand? That the Operating System
TS>> is the /official/ way of doing things. If it changes, you /must/
TS>> change with it (regardless of how stupid it is).
TC> No, no, no!!
TC>
TC> Forcing people to upgrade by breaking things and preventing older
TC> things from working is Micro$oft's way.
I'm not saying it's a brilliant way of doing things, but it's a fact
people have to face. Applications have to be coded to work with the
operating system, and that's how it's down. The operating system is the
only /official/ way to do things.
Try to do it any other way, and we're back to the mess of things that boot
from floppies, and can only be booted that way, because they don't work
with the operating system.
When we went from Workbench 1.3 to 2.x, things broke, applications had to
be re-coded. The same happened from 2.x to 3.0.
(I'm dropping an ISP soon, don't send mail to bigpond.com addresses.)
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