Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Short Hello World Message-ID: Date: 15 May 91 20:10:39 GMT References: <4872@orbit.cts.com> <1991May13.190617.1119@cinnet.com> <1991May14.105731.30717@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1991May15.103610.12158@starnet.uucp> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 25 In article <1991May15.103610.12158@starnet.uucp> sschaem@starnet.uucp (Stephan Schaem) writes: Yea, like CBM will KILL all early software written for the amiga do win 8 bytes! (Hope people jok when they talk about CBM replacing/removing a library function ) Nope, we're not joking. With 2.0, there are lots of replacements for "old" library entries, and CBM is universally telling people not to use the old version of the call. Now, go down the road to the next major OS release (3.0?). Judging from past experience, that's 5+ years away. That means that the only correctly written software that would be broken by deleting the old entries (or better - at least at that point - replacing them with an error return) is five or more years old. That kind of software is either 1) run by someone who's not fallen for the "have to have the latest and greatest" trap, and so probably won't upgrade their OS, or 2) been orphaned for at least five years. The latter is part of life.