Re: FTP on V3R2

I think the issue is dropping hardware.  Microsoft has dropped support for 
anything lower than a Pentium, much as IBM looks to be doing for lower 
than RISC. 







Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com>
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03/20/01 03:28 PM
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 rob@dekko.com wrote:

> And you stop using Microsoft products because they haven't come out with 
an
> update for Word on DOS in quite awhile?
>
> Rob Berendt


No -- I stopped using Microsoft products for a completely different
reason.  :)

Theres a big difference between dropping support for a word processor
(which doesn't really ever need to be updated, unless it's broken) and
dropping support for things like EDI, which need updates every year and
need to communicate with a central network.

If my EDI vendor drops support for CISC (which they already did) then I
can no longer get new standards.  I can no longer do business with major
customers because of that.

Likewise, I have an address correction software package.  I get regular
updates of the US postal service's database of addresses.  Now my
software vendor has dropped CISC support.  This means I can no longer
get these updates, making the address correction software completely
useless.

Anyway, I'm tired of this whole subject.  I'm running a RISC machine,
I'm at V4R5.  Leave me alone.


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