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KS2012: Supporting old/oddball architectures, tool chains, and devices

KS2012: Supporting old/oddball architectures, tool chains, and devices

Posted Sep 7, 2012 20:55 UTC (Fri) by wtanksleyjr (guest, #74601)
In reply to: KS2012: Supporting old/oddball architectures, tool chains, and devices by gb
Parent article: KS2012: Supporting old/oddball architectures, tool chains, and devices

The cost of supporting legacy platforms is NOT merely the time and money it takes to run a few tests on those platforms; rather, it's the inability to add new features because they impact a code path that can't be tested because it's only exercised on the legacy hardware.


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