On Tue, February 13, 2007 10:55 am, Karl Cunningham wrote: > On 2/13/2007 10:25 AM, Todd Walton wrote: >> On 2/12/07, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> to Vista one way or another. I have never seen anyone make good on >>> their >>> promise to never upgrade. I do not know of any shops that are still >>> purely win95, win98, win2k, etc. >> >> It was only about a year and a half or two years ago that Wells Fargo >> updated to Windows XP, and it was from Windows 95 and NetWare. On the >> desktop. > > FWIW, I noticed Fry's had finally switched from DOS last time I was there. > > Karl >
I frequently note that places like Fry's (CCC, Blockbuster, others) are working in POS systems that predate Win 3.1. Occasionally they look like Foxpro, sometimes they're in a windowing system so old I've forgotten the name of the library. The point, as we all know, is that a working system is far too valuable, and far to expensive to reengineer, for an enterprise to dink with it just because M$ wants to add to their bottom line. I recall in the late 90s consulting with a private phone carrier in Atlanta that had all their switching stations operating in MSDOS with a propriatary network and interrupt servicing extension. Sure, it was a kluge, but it was a _working_ kluge, and they didn't dare touch it. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
