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   On 2024-12-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:42:18 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >   
   >> Intel put the "backward" in "backward compatible".   
   >   
   > I recall the term “backward combatible” used to describe the feelings of   
   > violence some people had towards the requirement for backward   
   > compatibility with certain kinds of brain death ...   
      
   Then there's "bug-compatible", where so many people and systems   
   have adapted to an existing bug that you can't fix it without   
   breaking just about everything - so any future versions have   
   to also contain the bug, or at least a good emulation of it.   
      
   If at first you don't succeed, you might as well forget it.   
      
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   /~\  Charlie Gibbs                  |  Growth for the sake of   
   \ /        |  growth is the ideology   
    X   I'm really at ac.dekanfrus     |  of the cancer cell.   
   / \  if you read it the right way.  |    -- Edward Abbey   
      
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