[Coco] [OT} OS-9 on Raspberry Pi

[Allen Huffman]

On Feb 3, 2015, at 6:19 PM, John Guin <johnguin at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's not a customer issue.  It was (allegedly) caused by developers back in the day doing something like:
> 
> If (getWindowsVersion.contains("Windows9*"):
> 	//then assume windows 95/98 ....
> 
> So calling a Windows version "Windows 9" would break a lot of old software.
> 
> PC World - among many others - ran an article on this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2690724/why-windows-10-isnt-named-9-windows-95-legacy-code.html <http://www.pcworld.com/article/2690724/why-windows-10-isnt-named-9-windows-95-legacy-code.html>
> 
> Tagging this as off topic since we are off into a Windows conversation,

And they are probably worried Microware would sue them like when we sued Apple when they got to version 9 ;-P