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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Keywords: Drag-and-drop, application start, programm changes
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.050050.2564@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Jun 91 05:00:50 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.134801.19644@ifi.unizh.ch> <1991Jun22.021136.315@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <96@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun23.145847.16816@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
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peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>No. I suppose you could use a kludge to give the appearance of having them
>do this. Personally, I'd rather not install such a prop and force application
>programmers to update their code. The fewer kludges added in the name of
>backwards compatibility the better... that's the philosophy that's held the
>Mac back so badly.

  Unfortunately, users who have paid a lot of money for their old software 
like to see it take advantage of all these new features.  If the installed
software base were non-existent, then kludges wouldn't be necessary.  
  And I'm sure the Amiga has its fair share of backwards compatibility 
problems [remember that discussion we had about "Which has advanced more, 
the Mac or the Amiga"]?




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