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    16-Feb-94 11:34:26
Sb: #38682-PC Mag
Fm: Michael Ryan 72241,1756
To: Christopher Laprise 70431,2172
I'm a little confused here. Are you just saying that Windows 4 should've abandoned pre-386 users (or pre-486 users, for that matter)? I can see that, though there are an awful lot of those machines out there and abandoning them completely is a somewhat risky–not very, but somewhat–marketing move (not that anyone ever told Commodore, tho). On the other hand, if we're talking about backwards software compatibility here, I don't see *any* logic to a new OS *not* being backwards compatible (or, at least, as back-compat as possible). It would make MS lots of $$$$ if everyone got Windows 4 and then had to buy brand-new 32-bit versions of Word & Excel, but it would more likely cause armed Windows 3.1 users to riot. –MR