begin quoting gossamer axe as of Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:19:00AM -0700: > > I've read somewhere that Microsoft doesn't really like that situation > > and that they are working on the next version of the XBox to be more > > proprietary and tamper-proof. > > I have to wonder about the Xbox if it's going to work like Office and > other windows products that are "not" backwards compatable. I can > play Final Fantasy for Playstation I on my Playstation II, but will > the xbox 2 be able to play 1 games? A lot of MSwindows applications are backwards compatible, and that's part of the problem, I think. Instead of making a clean break, they make a lot of little breaks with backwards compatiblity. MOST things will work if you upgrade... just enough to keep most of the users happy.
This makes it really hard to fix truly broken things (Win32 API, for example). > I have problems at work with Outlook, using a new version on one > machine and then returning to your "previous" version on another > machine corrupts email. You're going back and forth. They expect you to upgrade in one direction only. If you play a Playstation 1 game on a Playstation 2, and save your game, can you resume that game on the Playstation 1? (Plus, you're comparing an engineered product with Outlook. That's not really fair.) [snip] > I used to see those email only little machines in WalMart, connected > with Yahoo or some other email service. That's all they > did...email...for your kitchen table or some such...I had read in some > article that they were the "future" of computing. I don't see them > anymore. People keep seeing computers-as-appliances, and act on that metaphor. Does MINITEL count? > Why use a console for a PC? Generally, more pleasing packaging. :) Convergence -- why have a console _and_ a PC? > Games play better on a computer, my > Radeon 9200 graphics card is a lot nicer on my laptop than my PS/2. I How old is your laptop compared to your PS2 (isn't PS/2 from IBM? I get burned on PS2 / PS/2 a lot.)? > like the control of the keyboard or joystick to the PS/2 controller, I haven't seen Rogue or Nethack for the playstation yet.... > gameplay is smoother. I do have a PS/2 but that's more to play games > as to not fill up my laptop hard drive =] Honestly, it would make a > sad computer compared to the 2.4 - 3.x Ghz processored computers that > are available now cheap. Isn't the playstation a lot quieter than the ~3GHz systems? My main machine is 500MHz and it works fine. Processor speed/power isn't everything. -Stewart "No playstation or xbox at home" Stremler
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