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There's no need to break the old stuff. Applications can signal compatibility level so that new applications need not support legacy cruft.
by jacob019 8y ago
There's no need to break the old stuff. Applications can signal compatibility level so that new applications need not support legacy cruft.
- oneeyedpigeon 8y agoSo your OS is always a bloated superset of its entire history?
- jacob019 8y agoOld compatibility levels can be deprecated at some point, this would qualify.
- anticensor 8y agoWindows already does it. The problem being there is no manifestation mechanism in MS-DOS executable format. No, it is harder to work with such a system.