Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by p_l on Sunday July 07, 2019 @06:41PM
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Windows supports core APIs for longer than Linux, or in fact, X11 exists.
It's actually possible (and was demonstrated) to upgrade from 1985 Windows 1.01 all the way up to 32bit Windows 10 and run windows 1.01 application without changes.
Arguably backward compatibility is the true reason how MS got to dominate OS market - you had good chance your software was just going to work on new OS version.
It's actually possible (and was demonstrated) to upgrade from 1985 Windows 1.01 all the way up to 32bit Windows 10 and run windows 1.01 application without changes.
Arguably backward compatibility is the true reason how MS got to dominate OS market - you had good chance your software was just going to work on new OS version.