The 800 lb gorilla would died of a broken thigh-bone because while
a gorilla's height may increase in one dimension, its volume and weight
will increase in
3 dimensions, and its bone cross-section in 2 dimensions, so its
thigh-bones will not
be strong enough to carry its weight: hence King Kong being a celluloid-only
gorilla.
This may well be M$'s problem . . . .
Although the way Apple behave I cannot somehow see them in the role
of Fay Wray!
Richmond.
On 5/15/17 7:48 pm, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
First and foremost, you might expect M$ to be able to deliver an OS that is
backward compatible, since they are the 800 lb. gorilla in this
conversation. They put out the specs that all the hardware vendors built
to, before they decided to change the rules and go in a direction that
broke everything. When all the hardware vendors were screaming, was M$
trying to build a compatibility layer? No? It's similar to what Apple
does every time they change the connector for their phones, just on a much
more severe level.
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
[email protected]> wrote:
Mike Kerner wrote:
Unfortunately, there are very expensive pieces of gear that have
controls on them that for one reason or another cannot be controlled
by OS's newer than XP. I happen to have one, here. It cost
$750,000. There is no dealing with the OS issue without replacing
the control, and that is also extremely expensive, on the order of
$400,000, so you would not replace the control without replacing the
whole unit. M$, when they decided to dump the XP paradigm, just like
when they got rid of DOS, broke upgradability for ATM's, machine
tools and CMM's, X-Ray and MRI machines, PBX's, etc.
All systems eventually reach end-of-life. If a vendor has enough
technical expertise to deliver hardware worth $750k, it seems reasonable to
expect that expertise would include sufficient familiarity with system life
cycles to anticipate a need for modular upgrades.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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