From: LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET (The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair.)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.i-amiga
Subject: Re: A4000 compatability
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:45:00 GMT
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>
>It seems strange to me that on the one hand you're arguing that Commodore
>should do more to discourage bad programming practices, and on the other
>asking for better backwards compatibility with bad programming practices.
>The surest way to discourage bad programming practices now is to make it
>clear that broken code will not work on all Amigas, costing the authors $$$
>in lost sales.  Supporting broken code would remove that incentive to get
>it right.
>
>--
>Dan Riley                          Internet:   dsr@lns598.tn.cornell.edu
>Wilson Lab, Cornell University     HEPNET/SPAN: lns598::dsr (44630::dsr)
>        "Maybe, leastways is the best way of all" -Caterwaul

Dan,
   I agree with you on most points, but do you have any idea how bad this
policy makes Commodore look to the rest of the computing community.  When I
have to say to my friend.  OH no, that program is incompatible with the new
2.0 - he doesn't give a darn that Commodore is trying to discourage bad
programming.  He just go Oh, no wonder it's a Commodore.  All they make is game
machines.  Commodore has yet to keep it's machines as backwords compatible as
the IBM PC.  I realize they build a lot more into Harware than IBM does, adn
therefore it is more difficult to keep it compatible.  But I still feel it is
a good practice.  They could even sell this compatiblity as an add on option.
A fall back 68000 w/ 1.3 card or something like that.  I mean great what
happens when AmigaDos 4.0 comes out and they decide to discourage bad
programming even more, and then I have to go buy all new software again.  I
ahte to say it but this just makes IBMs and MACS look even better to the reat
of the world.  Maybe now with the 4000 out Commodore will finally find a
platform on which it can keep at least 90% compatiblity.  I hope so I love
Commodore dearly, and even if they don't will continue to own and use the
AMIGA.

Sincerely,
Nyle
p.s. I hope your not getting mad.  I do love Amiga I just like some old
programs and wish they'd work on updates to the system without 3rd party
kludges. :)

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