Ed Leafe wrote: > What Apple did is deprecate a system: they said that they were > changing, and did so over a several-year period. The switch from 0x0 to > PowerPC lasted about 6 years; the switch from OS9 to OS X lasted 8 years, and > from PowerPC to Intel-based chips about 6 years. In the interim periods, both > old and new designs were fully supported. Nobody got "cut off", and even the > largest companies don't use 7-year-old desktops. > > That's the way to do things; supporting legacy stuff in your latest and > greatest system just doesn't make sense.
There's got to be some legacy support. Makes you wonder how thin/trim VFP would be today if it only supported back to say VFP8. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
