RE: [Dev-C++] General Windows thing

[Ioannis V. <no...@ya...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher D. Reimer [mailto:cr...@ra...] 
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 4:12 AM
> To: Ioannis Vranos; 'Dev-C++'
> Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] General Windows thing
> 
> 
> At 03:24 PM 2/3/2002, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 
> >with FAT32. But i can't see a reason why you want 3 windows 
> (or 2) on 
> >the same machine. Myself have Windows and Linux on the same machine.
> 
> Compatibility testing.  If you have code that enables certain 
> features 
> based on the OS or is supposed to be functional across 
> different versions 
> of windows, you don't know if it works unless you can test 
> it.  I have a 
> friend who has a Mac computer with every major version of the 
> Mac OS on 
> several hard drives to backward test his programs.
> 
> Christopher Reimer


Yes but MAC OS is a different story since MAC OS X is an operating
system based on UNIX and previous versions were a different thing. In
Windows 95 and above the system libraries are the same (e.g. MFC, Win32,
DirectX) and there is no way a program written using these common
libraries to not run in any version. With this logic we should have
Windows 95, 95B, 98, 98SE, Me, NT, 2000, XP on the same machine. :)


Ioannis
 
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