--- In [email protected], Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nico Heinze wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Thomas Hruska <thruska@> 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. <snip> > Terminating the server with prejudice would dig up some > functional specifications real fast. <snip>
Correct, but they're running this system for more than five years now. Obviously no one dares to make the first step. Any more questions? :-) Cheers, Nico
