RE: V5R2 Quality - Notes from the field needed

Douglas Handy wrote..

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All the PC software I wrote a decade ago still runs fine on any flavor of
Windows from 3.11 up through XP Pro.
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        Doug, you must have gotten lucky.
        With some rare exceptions, most of the software I've used of a 16 bit 
nature were 
        toast, the minute one of MS$ newer os's were introduced.
        Most of the incompatibility, stems I believe, in the extensive use some 
programs made
        of hardware, and specifically the use of IRQ's
        I must have ten's of thousands of dollars worth of software and 
hardware that no longer 
        functions with newer MS$ operating systems.
        That includes modems, emulation cards...etc...etc...
        I have a strong suspicion, there is no coincidence here either.
Ken