Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 29th Apr 2009 07:24 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes "Operating system vendors face this problem once or twice a decade: They need to migrate their user base from their old operating system to their very different new one, or they need to switch from one CPU architecture to another one, and they want to enable users to run old applications unmodified, and help developers port their applications to the new OS. Let us look at how this has been done in the last 3 decades, looking at DOS/Windows, Macintosh, Amiga and Palm."
Share this story

Your Name:

Your Email:

Your Friend's Email:

Please confirm the image:
Captcha