William: Thanks it was interesting. What I got a big kick out of how IBM did not mention their abandoment of education in the 80's and 90's. Their 2003 date was to late and a dollar short. I also thought it was interesting as how they danced around some topics saying a little bit but trying not to give the reason why IBM's did such a fantastic job in making sure new systems were supposedly more compatible with the old. Language Environment was not mentioned as I am sure it is still an embarrassment to IBM. What should be interesting the the years to come how good/bad IBM will be maintaining compatibility with different OS's amd languages. I am glass I am no longer full time into the beast as I suspect it will go down hill because of new writers of OS's will not care about compatibility the way the oldsters did. Ed
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