Re: For what purpose is DOS still being used? (Was eRPG)

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Nathan M. Andelin" wrote:

> Hans Bolt wrote:
>
> >BTW, for what purpose is DOS still being used
> >among your users?
>
> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints still uses DOS.  The
> financial, membership, calendaring, and other systems used in most
> congregations are DOS based.  Their popular Personal Ancestral File
> (Genealogy) program is DOS based.  Several of the "Family History"
> systems are DOS based.
>
> Is the church anti-technology?  No.  On the contrary, the church also has
> some of the most modern systems available.
>
> I can only speculate that many of their systems are DOS based because the
> church feels the resources it would take to upgrade to Pentium-Windows
> systems would be better spent elsewhere.  From personal experience,
> I can say the DOS based software is high quality.

NO! NO! NO!!!

New technology has been introduced that is better than the old technology.  You
need to throw out all the old technology and embrace the new technology.  Who
cares if it is simple, elegant, and functional solution, it's old technology!!!
Throw it out and spend the money to re-engineer it in the latest technology.

This message will be repeated in 6 months (max).

jte

"In order to be a legacy system, you have to have worked at some point."

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John Earl                               johnearl@400security.com
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