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From: Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
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On 2024-06-02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 12:44:38 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>
>> I will say this is one thing that I do think Microsoft have done very
>> well, backwards binary compatibility.
>
> Sure it is. Which is why “DLL Hell” never happens on Windows, does it?
>
> Except that’s where the phrase was coined.

It's a simple matter of emprical evidence.  Windows 98 when I last
used it supported newer software far more than the Linux Distros
released at the time.  I could run early versions of Firefox on
Windows 98SE, as well as Windows 3.1 software from the early 90s.

I never said it wasn't without its problems, but show me a system
which had better backwards compatibility?