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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WB1.4
Summary: 2.0 is reserved for major incompatibilities
Message-ID: <577@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 89 06:45:48 GMT
References: <272@pacengr.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <272@pacengr.UUCP> tlbaltad@pacengr.UUCP (Tim Baltad) writes:
>I don't know about the rest of you, but the major changes in WorkBench
>make it sound like maybe it should be a full rev. Could it be? WB 2.0???

Nah, they haven't broken enough things to call it 2.0 :-).  Remember when
MS-DOS went from version 1 to version 2?  If the user wanted to specify
which directory to store files, programs written for version 1 only needed
to worry about A: and B:.  When subdirectories were added to MS-DOS, all
those old programs did not understand things like "C:\123\DATA\JULY89.DAT".

Incrementing the major version number is reserved for major changes.  It
looks like 1.4 will be too compatible with 1.3 to be called 2.0.
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