CompuServe Magazine
Yes and no. Sure, don't break what you don't have to break… but if
you've trying to advance the state of the art for your processor / machine
family, don't worry about backwards compatibility. If you did the job
right the last time, it shouldn't be a significant concern. But with
AmigaDOS 2.0, we're right where cynics (like me 🙂 said we'd be: Even
though CBM started out by saying they wouldn't break anything; they did;
and because they started the project with the foolish, inexperienced and
arguably incompetent notion that they wouldn't break anything and therefore
couldn't really add any advancements or features, we're now stuck with a
half-hearted attempt at an operating system upgrade, and we've been waiting
three years for it. Yippee.