On 27 May 2010 at 15:43, John Howell wrote: > And computer music > files made 15 years ago can no longer be accessed > and used by any modern computers as OSs evolve.
Is this really true on Windows? I am surprised at the way Apple has handled OS X versioning. So far as I can tell, if you break software between versions, it's not the same OS version, but Apple still keeps incrementing the decimal points and saying it's still OS X. The other surprising thing to me is that there isn't any emulation software for OS X so you could run a VM and run your older version of OS X in order to run the old software. I don't mean this as Apple bashing at all. It's more just an observation of how things are, and that I'm surprised it works that way. I'm also stunned every time I find out how backwardly compatible Windows is, even with old, nonstandard software. I hesitate to cast MS in the role of "good guy" here, but I don't know of any software for DOS/Windows that postdates the introduction of the IBM PC that cannot be run on current versions of Windows (Win7, for instance), whether directly or in a VM. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
