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Well, you can't run 2002 OS X software on a modern Mac anymore, but you can still run 2002 Windows software on a modern PC (and probably 2002 Linux software too
by Tijdreiziger 4y ago
Well, you can't run 2002 OS X software on a modern Mac anymore, but you can still run 2002 Windows software on a modern PC (and probably 2002 Linux software too).
Actually, you can't even run 2010 iPhone OS software on a modern iPhone anymore (but you can run 2010 Android software on a modern Android phone).
- ehutch79 4y agoThat's not true in any practical sense. Sure you can run the xp calculator app on windows 11, but so what? Most of the programs that people want backwards compatibility for, enterprise apps, won't run correctly. Yes that's mostly because of how they're coded, but even if the source code still exists, I doubt anyone is putting effort into updating them at this point, and is just running xp or 2000 in a vm.