29th December 2003, 2:18 PM
Ah...
Though if we REALLY want to get technical, the PC is the first backwards compatible one, in the sense that all, or most, new hardware plays old software made for old hardware.
Though if we REALLY want to get technical, the PC is the first backwards compatible one, in the sense that all, or most, new hardware plays old software made for old hardware.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)