On Jan 12, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Daniel L. Taylor wrote:
How times have changed.... Macintosh used to be the system with
good backwards compatibility, and its user base would brag that you
didn't have to upgrade machines, OS, or software as often.
I don't recall that ever being claimed.
I do. Perhaps not in Apple's ads, but certainly in user groups and
such around the upheaval of Win95.
Hmmm ... I dont recall anything like that but that's not to say some
people didn't claim such things
Apple had pretty decent backwards compatibility up to OS 9
OS X obviously threw a monkey wrench in that
Old API's still persist but, with Carbon, many portions have been
deprecated
And, since OS X itself is evolving fairly rapidly anything that is
written to support a new API will have issues on older versions.
Not to say a developer could not make it work but they seem not to
But, getting a Vista only app I'm sure will happen fairly quickly if
it relies on something specific in Aero
That's happened on both OS's
Software updates on the Mac have been as frequent as anything else
What you don't always have to do is refresh your hardware to run the
latest OS
I've got a vintage iMac running 10.3.9 just fine downstairs it's
nearly 10 years old
Question is: can it out run a C64 with a datasette drive? ;-)
Yup
One of the kids uses it pretty much every day for surfing and playing
games and listening to music
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