Hello Bob!

13 Aug 09 03:34, you wrote to me:

 RC>> What flabbergasts me is that Vista had one of the longest
 RC>> development stages and the third party software and hardware folk
 RC>> where still lax as hell in getting patches and updates out there
 RC>> that would allow their products to run with Vista, as if
 RC>> Microsoft should be held responsible for the coding lapses of
 RC>> others.

 BA> M$ should be held responsible for not making their OS backward
 BA> compatible.

Vista was coded to address the glaring holes that got exposed by XP, the
biggest hole was the component that sat in between the keyboard and the
chair.

Gone are the days that computer users all only well versed geeks with loads
of street/cyber smarts.

Just yesterday, I installed a Linksys wireless network card into a Vista
PC, the driver was written for XP.

When I took one of my machines from XP to Vista, one that I was using for
my Fidonet reading node, all the Fido software, binkd mailer, tosser,
reader, compression programs, nodelist updaters, all continued to work.

What wont work are programs that made specific system calls that got
changed in Vista.

and change is something many of you people detest.

64 bit computing is gaining popularity and will be more mainstream in the
next few years, it is already in widespread use for machines sold with 4gb
of ram or more. Guess what isnt going to be natively compatible any
longer?? DOS!
(One could virtualize it or run a emulator like DOSBOX)

How many imcompatibilities were there when XP came out? Even though XP
could run many DOS apps, those apps that had to control the hardware
directly were left fluttering in the wind.

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Ross
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