I recently had the honor (?) of scrounging up some freeware for software
testing purposes at my new place of work. They have windows 95 installed
on their machines, soon to upgrade to windows NT.
Somewhat to my surprise I discovered some great freeware that starts
at the win 95 OS. On the other hand, Microsoft ways that win 2000
will be able to run ``most'' programs on previous win 9x, and NT was
already incompatible with quite a few win 9x programs. All the win
9x and NT OSs are to various degrees incapable of running various
DOS programs. And now we have a host of software designed for Linux
that must be re-ported to other Unix versions like BSD Unix.
This got me to musing that, if we one to retain are hard found, and
now beloved applications -- many of us will need to partition our
disks so we can store an ever increasing number of OSes on each:
Dos, win 3.x, win 95, win NT, Linux version xx, etc.
OSes are starting to change and become incompatible, almost as fast
as updated versions of software programs! To retain the functionality
of perfectly good software we will have to archive and store the historical
OS that each program ran well on!
This may not be too bad, albeit somewhat expensive. But what a wierd
dilemma this is to put consumers in.
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