RE: A86: ASM Converter from 85->86
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RE: A86: ASM Converter from 85->86
This analogy makes no sense at all. If you want to run your older programs,
you shouldn't have bought DOS 7. You chose to not be able to run your older
programs when you bought DOS 7, just the same way you chose not to be able to
run ZShell programs when you bought the TI-86.
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Jeff Tyrrill
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org On Behalf Of James Yopp
Sent: Friday, August 01, 1997 3:33 PM
To: 86 Assembly list
Subject: Re: A86: ASM Converter from 85->86
>Here's another analogy:
>
> Some wacko walks into a library with a case of white-out, hides in
>the stacks with "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," and changes every
>occurrence of "Alice said" to "Magnus said" He leaves all the pronouns
>untouched, and he doesn't change other occurrences of "Alice." Don't you
>pity the poor child that attempts to read it in that state? The only way
>to have a real "Magnus' Adventures" would be to edit the book thoroughly.
Here's a closer analogy:
You own DOS 6. However, when you buy DOS 7, you find out that it's
incompatible with all of your better programs. Wouldn't you expect to be
able to run your old software? How would you feel about having software
whose authors wouldn't, or couldn't, update it, because they didn't buy
into the upgrade thing? You'd expect either (a) an emulator (a la Power
Macintosh) or (b) an on-the-fly modifier to force old programs to work in
the new system (a la Win95).
James Yopp
jyopp@pobox.com
"Time is the fire in which we burn."