Nico Heinze wrote: > --- In [email protected], Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> >> There are about 5 people in the world using Windows 95 >> and maybe 1 person using Windows 3.x. Targeting those >> OSes is completely ridiculous. There are, unfortunately, >> Windows 98 users still in existence. > <snip> > > Believe it or not, until very recently I've been working in a project > where one really important FTP server runs in a virtual PC under > VMWare; this virtual machine runs MS-DOS as its "OS", and the FTP > server is just as stable as you will surely suspect. ;-) > Unfortunately no one dares to get rid of this installation because > there are other programs running in this virtual MS-DOS environment, > and no one has the source codes for these programs, nor does anyone > have a functional specification so that these programs could be > rewritten in a more modern environment. Nice, isn't it? But this is a > true story. > > So far about targeting older systems... > > Regards, > Nico
Terminating the server with prejudice would dig up some functional specifications real fast. Since it is MS-DOS, I can't imagine there being a whole lot of complex code involved that dropping a few modern libraries into a modern compiler couldn't re-invent real fast. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
