Mike Kerner wrote: > Unfortunately, there are very expensive pieces of gear that have > controls on them that for one reason or another cannot be controlled > by OS's newer than XP. I happen to have one, here. It cost > $750,000. There is no dealing with the OS issue without replacing > the control, and that is also extremely expensive, on the order of > $400,000, so you would not replace the control without replacing the > whole unit. M$, when they decided to dump the XP paradigm, just like > when they got rid of DOS, broke upgradability for ATM's, machine > tools and CMM's, X-Ray and MRI machines, PBX's, etc.
All systems eventually reach end-of-life. If a vendor has enough technical expertise to deliver hardware worth $750k, it seems reasonable to expect that expertise would include sufficient familiarity with system life cycles to anticipate a need for modular upgrades.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
