I've written a few notes before about my musical excursions, and will do so again. Today, however, I want to highlight a particular aspect of system design, namely compatibility (or the lack thereof).
I seem to remember that when Windows 2000 came out, Microsoft went through a tremendous effort to ensure that as many hardware device as possible that worked under Windows 95 and Windows 98 would also work under Windows 2000. When Windows XP came out, many device drivers th [...]
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