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

[Christopher D. R. <cr...@ra...>]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Ioannis Vranos wrote:

> 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. :)

That assumes that every previous version of Windows has an updated version
of the common libraries, or your code uses functions that are common to
all previous versions.  If your program is spec'd to be useable on
different versions of Windows, you will find it necessary to test on a
multiboot machine or use hard drive images.  If all you care about is
running your program on the latest and greatest OS, then previous versions
of the OS doesn't matter.

Christopher Reimer