Re: Wifi/Ethernet

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Wifi/Ethernet
Date	2014-02-05 01:25 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnlf34om.1mr2.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink)
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In message <dog_cow-1391543029@macgui.com> 
  D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
> Lewis wrote:
>> In message <drache-61DF25.17075203022014@news.eternal-september.org> 
>>   erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
>>> In article <lcmij8$e4k$1@dont-email.me>, Ted Lee <tmplee@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>>> On 2/2/14, 4:52 PM, erilar wrote:
>>>> > I see an enormous amount of trouble and expense as a result of being
>>>> > blocked from using almost every software program I currently use as
>>>> > well
>>>> > as every document and many graphics produced over the years since my
>>>> > first computer, many of which still ARE usable and reachable.  That's
>>>> > what I see, whether I want to or not.
>>>> 
>>>> Most of those went away when Classic and then Rosetta went away -- and 
>>>> that was long before Mavericks.
>> 
>>> Once upon a time Apple programs were backward compatible, so it wasn't 
>>> necessary to update all my data every time the OS climbed to a new 
>>> number.
>> 
>> Oh yea, I rememebr how eeasy it was to open Appleworks files from my
>> //c+ on the Mac. Oh wait.

> It was pretty easy with Apple File Exchange. The IIc Plus had an 800 k DS
> drive.

As I recall, you didn't open your old AppleWorks files, you converted
them, one-way, to the new format.

>> Wait, when was this mythical backwards compatibility period when prices
>> were low and politicians were honest and the summers were long and it
>> always snowed on Christmas Eve?

> There is a game called Missile Command. It was written in 1984. It will run
> on every model of Macintosh and every classic Mac OS System up to 9.2.

And stack that up against thousands and thousands of programs that broke
with System 6, System 7, System 7.1, System 7.5, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, OS
X 10.0, 10.1, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7.

-- 
The Drum jealously guarded its reputation as the most stylishly
disreputable tavern in Ankh-Morpork and the big troll that now guarded
the door carefully vetted customers for suitability in the way of black
cloaks, glowing eyes, magic swords and so forth. Rincewind never found
out what he did to the failures. Perhaps he ate them. --Sourcery

Thread

Wifi/Ethernet Wilbur Eleven <wil@nowhere.at.all.ru.ca.fr.uk.us> - 2014-01-31 10:16 -0500
  Re: Wifi/Ethernet Sick of it <lah@de.da.ru.ru.ru> - 2014-01-31 15:20 +0000
    Re: Wifi/Ethernet Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-31 13:13 -0500
      Re: Wifi/Ethernet Wilbur Eleven <wil@nowhere.at.all.ru.ca.fr.uk.us> - 2014-02-01 08:35 -0500
        Re: Wifi/Ethernet Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-02-01 11:16 -0500
          Re: Wifi/Ethernet Wilbur Eleven <wil@nowhere.at.all.ru.ca.fr.uk.us> - 2014-02-01 11:25 -0500
          Re: Wifi/Ethernet erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-02-01 12:24 -0600
            Re: Wifi/Ethernet Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-01 20:42 +0000
            Re: Wifi/Ethernet Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-01 23:05 +0000
              Re: Wifi/Ethernet erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-02-02 16:52 -0600
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-02-02 22:57 +0000
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-02-03 17:10 -0600
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet Ted Lee <tmplee@gmail.com> - 2014-02-02 16:58 -0600
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-02-03 17:07 -0600
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-04 14:50 +0000
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2014-02-04 19:43 +0000
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-05 01:25 +0000
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-02-07 11:15 -0600
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-07 18:05 +0000
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-02-10 18:23 -0600
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-02-12 19:43 -0800
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-02-13 21:17 -0600
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2014-02-11 19:49 +0000
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-02-07 11:09 -0600
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-03 01:53 +0000
                Re: Wifi/Ethernet erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-02-03 17:05 -0600
    Re: Wifi/Ethernet Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-31 19:05 +0000
  Re: Wifi/Ethernet Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-01 10:23 -0500

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