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Avoid 10 !
"Gene Wirchenko" wrote
| Microsoft dropped support for 16-bit applications. I do not call | that being very good with backward compatibility. | And I can't hook up a typewriter to my computer's PS2 port. Oh, well. But I can write VB6 software that runs on virtually every currently running Windows computer, back to Win95, with no support files needed. If I were programming on a Mac I'd b targetting only the last two versions. God help any Mac user who wants software to run on a 3-4 year old machine. Each bitness requires a shim to run the earlier version, as I expect you know. Win-64 has to have built-in functionality to adapt to Win-32. Likewise with Win-32 to Win-16. In other words, Microsoft didn't break anything. They just didn't build in support for Win16. I don't know how much trouble that would have been. But they have to draw the line somewhere. Software circa Win3.1 can't be any more than a novelty these days. |
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