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From: cjdb@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Charles Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: IBM new 'standard'
Message-ID: <1303@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 13:26:19 EST
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1303
Posted: Thu Mar 19 13:26:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Mar-87 07:21:15 EST
References: <1010@rpics.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: cjdb@sphinx.UUCP (Charles Blair)
Organization: University of Chicago Library Computer Systems
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Keywords: proprietary not upwardly compat. OS is goof...
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In article <1010@rpics.RPI.EDU> chassin@rpics.RPI.EDU (Dave Chassin) writes:
>[...] In other words why are they making a machine
>the won't run any of the applications that currently run on IBMs ...

"Despite the proprietary changes, most existing software, including
that written to take advantage of IBM's Enhanced Graphics Adapter
standard, will run on the new machines, [unnamed] sources said.

"However, software that is written to take advantage of the
capabilities of the new computers will not run on their older
siblings."

_Computerworld_, 16 March 1987.-- 
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