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There's a video called "Chain of fools" where a man updates Dos 5.0 -> Windows 7

In this way: Dos 5.0 Installes windows 1.0 -> windows 2.0 -> windows 3.0 -> windows 3.1 -> windows 95 -> windows 98 -> windows 2000 -> windows xp -> windows vista -> windows 7.

He skipped ME because he couldn't update ME to 2000. All through this he had Doom installed and it ran successfully on vista without modification.

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This really isn't as impressive as it sounds and is more akin to saying "i painted my house differed colors and my refrigerator worked the while time".

'Windows 7 is so backwards compatible that you can still run software from 1993'

or alternately

'Windows 7 is so full of old outdated code that you can still run software from 1993.'

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