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Re:Why is Apple acting like an asshole? by tikkabhuna on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @04:23AM (#24490643)
That's a decision made by Microsoft which has pros and cons. There's significant overhead in maintaining this backwards compatibility. For an OS used by corporations all over the world, its worth it. For a mobile OS it will likely reduce their ability to deliver changes.
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Re:Why is Apple acting like an asshole? by bigiain on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @05:22AM (#24490945)
Apple used to give a shit there. They did a bunch of extra work so you could run OS9 apps under OSX for a few years, and they did an amazing job of making 68000 code run on PowerPC...
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Re:Why is Apple acting like an asshole? by saagarjha on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @05:35AM (#24491029)
Wait until you see Rosetta.
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Re:Why is Apple acting like an asshole? by emsy on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @04:49AM (#24490788)
I agree, I think a lot of what holds Windows back is the baggage from the past. Ideally OSes would live somewhere in a healthy middle, where we can’t expect 10 year old software to run on the current version of an OS. On the other hand we should expect 1 month old software to run on after an OS update.
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