> I stocked a few Win2k for the upcoming machines that will last > another 6 years. We'll see what happens till then.
Interesting - you have your own planned obsolesence program ;-) I do the same, but I try to squeeze more time from a PC (4 years, at least). But I haven't stockpiled OS licenses. I wonder if new PC hardware 6 years from now will run W2K? In my office, old PCs never die - they just get retasked. My old (circa 1996) Dell was retasked as a Windows Samba print server and voice mail system. It still uses the Win95 it came with. I knew that Protel 99SE would be slow on it, so that's why I put 99SE on the newer dual-PIII W2K machine. There's lots of life left in those old PC's! Just give them something else to do! Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene Tschaggelar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel 99 se SP4 on Windows XP Home > I tried hard to find some Win2k pro. > While I was successful now, I know I won't within a few month. > I stocked a few Win2k for the upcoming machines that will last > another 6 years. We'll see what happens till then. > > > Rene > > Mike Ingle wrote: > > > > While in general agreement that I am not interested in moving to XP, one is > > faced with the fact that almost all new PCs come with it. Thus usres buying > > partticularly name brand PCs are going to be faced with using XP, or coming > > up with an old license for win 2k (my preference). > > > > I hate that Protel is going to have to invest engineering effort into XP > > compatability rather than autorouter and other basic feature upgrades. > > Basically as I see it we are all going to be paying for the fact that XP is > > not compatible with previous windows versions. Protel has no choice but to > > make their product compatible with the latest version of windows. > > > > Mike > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
