On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Carl Dassbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Interesting question  - is software timeless.  Not really, or we would and
> could be using software written for IBM machines of the 50s or CPM machines
> of the early 1980s.  Software, whether applications or operating systems,
> is to a large measure specific to hardware.  You can not run CPM on a modern
> computer and I doubt if you could find a usable CPM machine today,
> Conversely, one of the problems with Vista is that it requires a hefty
> processor and lots of memory and so you can't even run it on early Pentium
> machines.  So, I would say that software isn't timeless, it is historically
> and technologically  specific.


What can Word 2007 do that Word 1995 could not?
-raghu.
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