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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Short Hello World
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Date: 16 May 91 09:45:05 GMT
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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 )
> Oldopenlibrary is 'slower' and how cares about using 2 more byte of
> code to use OpenLibrary...?
>
>							Stephan.


Yes, commodore probably WILL eventually kill most code from early 1.0 days. 
who runs anything that hasn't been updated to at least 1.1?  very few people
do and only then for nostalgia reasons, witness a comment made several days
ago on this net about Mind Walker.  I think it's a good idea personally, they
are trying to phase out BCPL as well.  on day anything written with BPTR's
will not work either.  that's part of the reason commodore is pushing 2.0 so
hard, and why they AREN"T pushing backward 1.3 compatibility.  not just
because it's new, but when everyone's moved over to 2.0 they can kill ALOT of
old mistakes.  I don't think 1.3 compatibility should be an issue for the 3000
since they are now selling them hand over fist, if it doesn't work under 2.0
people won't buy it.  developers will quickly learn that they should follow
the rules.

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