Re: is nmi translator off limits?

[jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, 11 May 2001 10:32:36 -0400 "Steve Richter" wrote:
> Any performance
impact . . . is corrected by next years higher speed cpu.

This is exactly
the same cop-out that Microsoft has been using for over a 
decade. It's the
reason why people buy Pentium 4 systems for their homes to run 
gameware that
won't run on last year's state-of-the-art Pentium III business 
systems. It's
the reason why perfectly serviceable 8088, 8086, 286, 386, 486, 
Pentium,
Pentium Pro, and Pentium II desktop systems (not to mention

IMPI-architecture and even early-RISC AS/400s) are going into
landfills.

For my part, I take great pride in the fact that even the newest
release of 
QuestView (with support for exceptions thrown by database trigger
programs, 
automatic splitting of "huge" fields, and a utility for
automatically creating 
join logicals, among other new features) will still
run, with reasonable 
response times, on a V2R3 D02, that ThinView will run
on a V2R3 200, and that 
my DOS applications will run on most of the DOS
machines in the aforementioned 
landfill.

--
James H. H.
Lampert
Professional_Dilettante
http://www.hb.quik.com/jamesl