Re: V5R2 Quality - Notes from the field needed

Joe,

>So it's a wash.  Hey, you brought it up, Rob, not me.  But I CAN run
>programs I wrote 10 years ago on the latest version of the operating system,
>which I cannot do with Windows.

What did you write 10 years ago under Windows which you can't still run today?
Is it application type software?

All the PC software I wrote a decade ago still runs fine on any flavor of
Windows from 3.11 up through XP Pro.  It does still run as 16-bit software, but
does not require any modifications or recompilation.

And because I had a tendency to use things like direct API calls to various
functions, I can't just port and recompile to a newer version of the IDE or
compiler without modifing the source for the tunking required.  But I can still
recompile it using the old compiler.  And then I can move that executable even
to machines using an older OS.  (This is not really unlike IBM's *PRV release
support running an older compiler to product a *PGM which can be restored to an
old release.)

So I'm curious why you can't run Windows programs you wrote 10 years ago, unless
it was something like a desktop shell replacment.

Doug