This gives a great deal of assurance for Windows developers. You don't have to worry about your app not working in future versions of Windows.
Try running a 16-bit application on Windows x64...
Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
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Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#22He applauds MS for continually supporting their legacy software... my opinion is that such legacy support is what continually hampers their rapid development
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#23Looking forward to someone doing the same sort of thing with other OSs.
You can't do it with this level of preciseness in the Mac family at least. Between OS X, probably as long as you're not on non-intel processors. Like other commenter said, Windows/MS really goes all the way for backwards compatibility.
You can take a G3 from Mac OS 7.1.2 (version which added PowerPC support) all the way to 10.4, which would take you from 1997 to 2005. I haven't done it, but I've read that getting 10.4 requires some finagling to achieve, so the last supported install you could do would be 10.3.9
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#24God, the memories. I remember booting up Windows 95 for the first time -- I was so stoked. Everything was so new and smooth and perfect. Plus -- and this is the important thing -- PPP worked much, much better than 3.1 + trumpet winsock. Some time around 98SE I was dual booting into BeOS, which was so damn fast it wasn't funny. But it wasn't to be. And I remember browbeating Red Hat 3 into connecting to the internet a…
I had Ethernet in my dorm room for a year with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and never did get it to connect to the interweb. (I had some pretty clever helpers from the Harvard Computer Society, too. Nobody could figure it out.) One of my greatest days as a computer user was the day I installed Windows 95 and got Internet Explorer to load playboy.com—oh, and also fas.harvard.edu. :-)
(Of course, all good things must come to and end, and after Windows 98 was through I switched to Linux/Firefox and then to OS X/Firefox/Chrome.)
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#25He left out Windows ME. I guess that would be too much to ask.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#26God, the memories. I remember booting up Windows 95 for the first time -- I was so stoked. Everything was so new and smooth and perfect. Plus -- and this is the important thing -- PPP worked much, much better than 3.1 + trumpet winsock. Some time around 98SE I was dual booting into BeOS, which was so damn fast it wasn't funny. But it wasn't to be. And I remember browbeating Red Hat 3 into connecting to the internet a…
Weirdly enough my uncle actually knew the guy who wrote Trumpet Winsock. He says he got burnt by piracy fairly badly: computer magazines were including the full version of his app on their cover disks all over the world, ISPs were handing his app to their customers, and his company was too small to stop them.
I had no idea. We ought to set up a donation drive.
edit: I was not being sarcastic. I wouldn't mind chipping a few bucks if a hat is going around.
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#27He left out Windows ME. I guess that would be too much to ask.
The point of the video was chronicling Windows upgrades. ME wasn't an upgrade. :)
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#28Site is Farked. Youtube direct link:
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#29Looking forward to someone doing the same sort of thing with other OSs.
You can't do it with this level of preciseness in the Mac family at least. Between OS X, probably as long as you're not on non-intel processors. Like other commenter said, Windows/MS really goes all the way for backwards compatibility.
If at OS X you take your previous computer and attach it in target disk mode or something (I'm not a Mac person) will it do anything with the old OS, perhaps use settings or allow apps to run under emulation or such.
Such quirks are partly what would make such things interesting.
Slackware goes back to 1993, is there an earlier Linux distro still in major use? (looks like there isn't - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Gldt.svg).
It might be more interesting with Linux to follow a WM?
Re: Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)
#30God, the memories. I remember booting up Windows 95 for the first time -- I was so stoked. Everything was so new and smooth and perfect. Plus -- and this is the important thing -- PPP worked much, much better than 3.1 + trumpet winsock. Some time around 98SE I was dual booting into BeOS, which was so damn fast it wasn't funny. But it wasn't to be. And I remember browbeating Red Hat 3 into connecting to the internet a…
Weirdly enough my uncle actually knew the guy who wrote Trumpet Winsock. He says he got burnt by piracy fairly badly: computer magazines were including the full version of his app on their cover disks all over the world, ISPs were handing his app to their customers, and his company was too small to stop them.
I got Trumpet Winsock from my ISP. I wonder if they licensed it or not. Probably not, from the sound of it.