Hello David
On 04-Aug-99, you wrote:
> Hello Dirk
>
> On 03-Ao�t-99, you wrote:
>
>> Hello Merlyn
>>
>>
>>> PPS. Remember, most of us bought our Miggys when the company Promised
>>> backward compatibility and claimed to have hardware and OS
>>> capabilities to ensure it. This is WHY many purchased the Amiga
>>> in the first place. If that promise is broken, if the programmers
>>> are incapable of or unwilling to continue that compatibility, then
>>> the ranks of IBuM users will certainly increase for the Amiga
>>> will be no different, merely a strange graphic OS lovingly
>>> remembered.
>>
>> A backwards compatible OS and hardware capabilities to ensure it do not
>> mean that new programs should run on old hardware specs, but rather that
>> old programs also run well on new hardware specs, if I'n not mistaken.
> You missed the point. A backward compatibility is "if I upgrade this program
> it will work the same as the old and will add lot's of features." THAT is
> backward compatibility in all software firms.
The company which was mentioned promising backwards compatibility was
commodore (Escom/Amiga/whoever have been involved), promising backwards compatibility.
They promised that (most) older
software would still run on newer systems. AFAIK Commodore was a hardware
firm, not a software firm? What they promised was: If I upgrade from an A500
to an A1200 I can still use most of my old software with it. So what point
exactly did I miss? Or did Olli promise that if he would produce new hardware
and a new OS Voyager would remain the same on the new system, adding new
features? Doesn't make sense to me at all. Sorry, don't think I missed a point
here. Olli/Vapor did never make any promises about new Amiga's being backwards
compatible. Did Olli claim to have Hardware capabilities or OS capabilities to
ensure backwards compatibility?
Dirk
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