Thats a big IF... Reasons to discontinue support? When they decide its not worth their time & money, which in the digital world seems to happen very fast. Hopefully they'll open source the format when they do decide not to support anymore.
The 5.25" floppy in the article is a very good...
Size limit per file for FAT32 is 2GB. Encountered this when editing video from DVcam. Max quality abt 30mins only, then the program will create a new file to continue.
It does raise some very important concerns... say 5 years down the road when everyone is running Windows 2010, Pentium 7. Will manufacturers feel the need to provide software to handle a 10 year old RAW format? Will the current software run on future OS and hardware? Would you even want...
The adjustment printout at the back is optional, lab can choose not to print it. Doesn't matter if you print film or digital.
LCD supposedly has smaller color gamut than CRT. Some are reportedly maximum 18-bit color even though your settings are 24/32 bit.
Cannot lah, coded for different hardware. Probably xbox1 games can play on 360 but even then they have not made any statement about backward compatibility.