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From: "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: LT Spice updates
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:29:22 -0400
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"Don Y" <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote in message news:v4a7vk$168f4$3@dont-email.me...
> On 6/11/2024 12:17 PM, Don Y wrote:
>> On 6/11/2024 11:56 AM, Edward Rawde wrote:
>>> It's been a long time since the average software update switched from
>>> actually fixing anything to forcing the latest version into use.
>>
>> Unfortunately, you may not realize that this has been imposed on you
>> until it is too late to "go back".
>>
>> I preserve copies of old files in their original forms (and file formats)
>> to safeguard against this biting me -- again! This lets me decide if I
>> want to abandon the "more recent" version of the file in favor of returning
>> to an earlier version (with known performance characteristics in the earlier
>> application version)
>
> Of course, maintaining old versions is a piece of cake with VMs
> (and folks who haven't adopted SOME form of that technology are
> needlessly hindering their own productivity!)

I frequently find a need to use an older program on Windows XP, including posting here.
It's all in a VM now, accessed by remote desktop, so I can be XP one second and Win10 the next.
Also useful when playing with cpu intensive software such as AI.
Leave it running on another computer then get the result by remote desktop.

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