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On the other hand "for life", in the 1980s and early 1990s, was a bit different - your platform could go extinct. You might technically have a license to a prog
by jhbadger 7y ago
On the other hand "for life", in the 1980s and early 1990s, was a bit different - your platform could go extinct. You might technically have a license to a program on a Tandy Color Computer or Atari 800 or even the more popular Apple ][ and Commodore 64. But all those platforms were abandoned by their manufacturers (and most of them went bankrupt anyway).
- jaclaz 7y ago>But all those platforms were abandoned by their manufacturers (and most of them went bankrupt anyway). And later Virtual Machines/Emulators for them were invented and (possibly with some limitations/quirks) you can still use that software.