Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!shadooby!oxtrap!oxtrap!time From: time@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP (Tim Endres) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Tail patches Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 89 21:14:32 GMT References: <5249@internal.Apple.COM> <17090@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <5292@internal.Apple.COM> <1989Nov20.182741.2658@eng.umd.edu> <5320@internal.Apple.COM> <1989Nov21.040138.344@eng.umd.edu> <21353@brunix.UUCP> <1989Nov21.153508.1872@eng.umd.edu> Sender: time@oxtrap.aa.ox.com (Tim Endres) Reply-To: time@oxtrap.UUCP Organization: Oxtrap - Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: russotto@eng.umd.edu's message of 21 Nov 89 15:35:08 GMT In article <1989Nov21.153508.1872@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: In article <21353@brunix.UUCP> ejd@iris.brown.edu (Ed Devinney) writes: > Jeeeezzzuss, guys...when did Apple (aside from Steve Jobs maybe) claim that >the Mac family would be upward-compatible forever? And if they did, when >were you gullible enough to believe them? That is the whole argument. Apple claimed, and continues to claim, that any program that follows their guidelines will work on all future platforms. This simply isn't so. >++++++ >ed devinney...IRIS/Brown University, Providence, RI...ejd@iris.brown.edu -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu You must remember that the above claim is absurd. At best it is a "goal". In fact, depending on what is declared to be "the" quidelines, the claim *is* true. I have a new company. Blue Sky Inc. We intend to produce a computer that runs all operating systems and is binary compatible with every machine in existence. And they all run simultaneously in seperate windows! You are smart enough to see through that one. Why let a little colored Apple confuse you?