Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Nick Sabalausky]

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 02:27:20PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:tfdzpwcijnavdalmnzit at forum.dlang.org...
>> > On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 18:57:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> >> It can hardly be called a success technology-wise.
>> >
>> > It is significantly ahead of its competition at the time.
>>
>> And it was a big advancement over 3.1. Pre-emptive multitasking
>> anyone?
> [...]
>
> I thought the Unix world has had that years before Windows.

I just meant versus 3.1. I wouldn't know about Unix.

> But not in the consumer PC market, I suppose.
>

I'm not sure I'd say there was a consumer-level Unix at all back then.