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In message <drache-78DD81.11151607022014@news.eternal-september.org> 
  erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:
> In article <slrnlf34om.1mr2.g.kreme@amelia.local>,
>  Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>> 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> 

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

> I can still open them with Pages as long as they were originally saved 
> as WP.  Pages can't open anything else because of its limitations, 
> unlike every version of ClarisWorks and AppleWorks.  It can't even make 
> calendars, which I still need AW for if I want to make them the size I 
> want them.

You're talking about very different versions of AppleWorks. The version
for the Apple // series was almost nothing like the later version for
the Mac, other than in name.

>> >> 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?

> Pre OS 10.6

Facts do not bare that out. I remember many many programs breaking with
System 7 and many more with System 7.5 and many more with Mac OS 8.0. A
lot broke with 10.3 (but very few with 10.0-10.2), and a lot again with
10.5.

With Mac OS 8 (originally System 7.7) I was on the beta team and of the
hundred or so bugs I filed nearly all of them where "program x crashes
on launch" or "program y crashes when you try to print" sorts of bugs.

>> > 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.
>    I still have a couple games on the old computer, which is 9.2.2.  
> It's also the only one that can open my interactive Bayeux Tapestry DVD.
>> 
>> 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.

> No, most of them broke with OSX and they keep breaking as the numbers 
> after OS X mount up.

Again, the facts do not back you up.

-- 
I get the feeling that some people's idea of heaven is an "I told you
so" T-shirt - mmalc

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  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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