07-13-2015, 12:34 AM
(07-13-2015, 12:31 AM)Jim_Clonk Wrote:Sorry I didn't say what I was trying to say there. What I meant to say was that backwards compatibility is infinitely easier than current compatibility, you can't retroactively make old sockets compatible with new plugs, those are called new sockets, and to make the new plugs compatible with old sockets would mean handicapping the new plugs.(07-13-2015, 12:27 AM)Surge Wrote: Isn't that how CPUs work too? Newer generations of chips need motherboards with special plugs, but these plugs usually also work with the previous generation. I might be wrong there and backwards compatibility on CPUs isn't common, it definitely happens though.that's not the problem...
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