So you're happy. I'm happy you're happy. I'm not happy, but that is me. But I'm happy you are happy with the situation.
The point I meant to make was that you keep all the software you bought for DOS or earlier versions of Windows? And they work? Or maybe you don't care that they don't work and you upgrade? I mean, your Windows 3.1 game you bought and loved later worked on Windows 2000 or Windows NT or Windows XP Home Edition or (or should I say AND) Windows XP Pro and will work fine on Vista. You don't have to pay for upgrades? Well, God Bless You man. God bless you. You wrote an application in 1989 for MVS, say it was just a COBOL report program. It still runs today on the latest hardware and OS. You may have lost the source, but the program still runs. Or look at it another way. You were a developer for an application that ran on OS/390 2.10. When z/OS 1.1 came out did you worry too much that your app wouldn't work? How much did you worry? Ask developers what hoops they have to jump through each time a new release of Windows comes out. You'll surely, I think, get an entirely different story. That's all I was saying. You can defend Microsoft all you wish, but they'll never come as close to protecting their customers' software development investments as IBM has done. Hands down. /rant=off Lindy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Preserving the interface (was: What's a programming language) This is sort of wandering OT, but I wanted to react to something: On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 21:36 +0200, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > The other end of the spectrum is Microsoft who tries to come out with > something brand new every few years, and they don't care if nothing > works anymore. Bog knows I'm rarely a defender of Microsoft, but I think they do a pretty good job of carrying legacy interfaces forward. Vista is as late as it is (as was XP, and NT before that) partially due to the device driver and BIOS and API baggage they've accumulated. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
