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In article <20020@usc.edu> kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) writes:


   Think about how disappointed you will be if that new release of brand
   xyz word processor you like and use will require virtual memory? Will
   that happen? Probably not, in most cases. Hopefully software companies
   won't be stupid enough to ignore all the installed pluses and se's.
   The one certain thing is that you can't be sure anymore. The promise
   is no longer there for the older machines.

I don't understand your reasoning.  Are you saying that Apple should
keep -everyone- crippled, just to make sure nothing ever gets
obsolete?  They shouldn't have put color in the Mac II, because of all
those color paint programs that can't be used by people with Mac
Plusses?  Apple shouldn't have released HyperCard because it can't run
on a 512K Mac?

When you take advantage of the power of new machines, you inevitably
add features that can't be supported on older machines.  This is part
of the price of progress.  Of course, you should make every effort to
support backward compatibility, and Apple is doing that (much more so
than many other computer companies).  But if you want inovation, you
have to admit some degree of obsolesence.