On 9 Mar 2005 at 23:10, Robert Patterson wrote: > I don't think MM's corporate memory extends back to Fin2.6.3 days, > even if one or two old-timers may still be there that were there then. > There have been two major transformations in the product as well as at > least two major transformations in the company. I think these have had > much more impact on their ability to support Fin2.6.3 than any OS > changes. Plus, OS changes happen on all platforms. I wonder if the old > 16-bit FinWin 2.x version will run on WinXP.
I can't answer your question (though I guess I could try installing WinFin 2.01 on Win2K, but don't really have the interest right now), but I will say that MM is not the only company to have this kind of problem. Microsoft now hires an outside individual who does data recovery on Jet database files whenever they need to know the internals of the Jet file format, because the institutional knowledge of how Jet and its files work has evaporated over the years. MS also lost the source code for some early versions of DOS, so even companies that are good at maintaining compatibility (which MS manifestly is, probably moreso than any other major software vendor) can have problems like this. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
