@AT1ST@eniko "we skipped windows 9 because people were checking for string.StartsWith("Windows 9") to check if it was windows95 or 98 and that still has to work"
@JoshJers@eniko To some extent, it's making me realize that Texas Instruments doesn't get that kind of rep, and it feels like maybe they should've tried for it.
Like, "Yes, we have a new version of our TI-Nspire models, but they will still run that program of Doom from your father's TI-83 if you upload it to this new calculator model, no changes to the code necessary.".
@AT1ST@eniko problem is we've all lost our old programs because there was only volatile ram and the batteries have all died at one point in the last 25 years
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@JoshJers @eniko To some extent, it's making me realize that Texas Instruments doesn't get that kind of rep, and it feels like maybe they should've tried for it.
Like, "Yes, we have a new version of our TI-Nspire models, but they will still run that program of Doom from your father's TI-83 if you upload it to this new calculator model, no changes to the code necessary.".
I have a feeling they didn't do that.