From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:43:54 -0500, Stephen Hoffman wrote:   
      
   > DEC sought to provide a degree of ABI and API stability, which —   
   > *looks around* — clearly wasn't a particularly viable business   
   > model.   
      
   IBM (with its mainframe business) and Microsoft would seem to be doing   
   much the same sort of thing. IBM lasted a bit longer than DEC, but   
   that part of its business is clearly in “legacy” mode these days.   
      
   As for Microsoft, for all the myths about backward compatibility, OS   
   upgrades are now enough of a headache that large swathes of customers   
   have become reluctant to accept them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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