On Mon, May 03, Willibald Krenn wrote:
This is ridiculous: Windows XP still runs DOS, 16 bit Windows and Windows 95 programs mostly without a hitch. On Linux we have to throw away our applications every other year, just because developers don't care for backward compatibility. (Thank god, we have Microsoft!)
You wrote it: "mostly without a hitch". I still can use Applixware from good old libc.so.5 days (I think this application is about 5-6 years old). It works. Nothing more. The programmers made a good job and wrote an application without using internal interfaces or something else. If your Windows application uses internal interfaces or is build in a wrong way, it will fail with the next Windows version, too. The same is true for Linux. There is no difference. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE Linux AG Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B