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In article <420u3r$65m@goonsquad.spies.com>,
Maynard Handley  <maynardh@apple.com> wrote:

>This is really STUPID attitude. Look, suppose you are designing an 
>artificial heart. Designing the pump is trivial---the hard part is 
>getting it to work with human bio-chemistry. But if you don't get it to 
>work with human bio-chemisty, what's the point?

analogy failure.

>Same thing with DOS emulation under Windows, and same point with Mac 
>backward compatibility.

nonsense.  only in the PC world is compatibility with ten-plus y/o
software a selling point.  in the real (MIS) world, any product you
might be using would either (a) be supported so you can get an upgrade
that runs on the latest version of the OS or (b) available to customer
in source form (because customer wrote it or had it written) and could
be upgraded in-house.  the problem is that PC software manufacturers
don't believe in software maintenance; once the user has the package,
that's the last they want to hear of them (except to buy more
software).

the problem is ten years of lackadasical user support by MicroSloth
and a lot of other PC vendors.  they got away with producing whatever
they want because the user had no choice.

please note that i am used to dealing with _real_ software houses.
MIS professionals don't put up with companies that don't support what
they sell.  ongoing software support is one of the most important
things you consider when selecting a software system.

demanding DOS support in windows is like demanding that every UNIX
system emulate a PDP-11.

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