At 15:38 -0600 on 20/08/01, Steve Conrad wrote:
>Interesting....my ISP says that unless you are running Eudora 5+ or running
>the latest and greatest there is no support for you as older stuff is
>simply not supported. Now I am on a IIci running 7.5.5, 32M RAM and I use
(!supported) != (!working)
Most ISPs will only support that which they can hire people to support.
Hiring (or training) people to support software that's eight years old
isn't usually profitable simply because it's at the short end of the bell
curve. Most users (you stats people out there can correct me, but I think
I have this right) - about 94 percent - are within one standard deviation
(call that one software revision) of the norm. The paying to support that
extra six percent isn't worth it.
Of course, that doesn't mean it won't WORK. I find that about 90% of the
time something "requires" a PPC (take, for example, DSL), it really
doesn't, but the ISP simply hasn't invested the time to figure out how to
make it work on an older machine. Same goes for things like e-mail and WWW
browsing - they're usually standard protocols and are reasonably
platform-independent, so if it works on one thing, it will work on just
about everything.
p
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