RE: V5R2 Quality - Notes from the field needed

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

You are wrong here.  I have programs that are 10 years old and still
running.  Some of them are even windows based programs.  But many DOS
programs still work just fine. 

But yes, many Windows/DOS programs from 10 years ago don't run.

But what about all those programs whose observability was removed pre RISC?
Those aren't running anymore either.  And that used to be a very common
practice.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 11:41 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: V5R2 Quality - Notes from the field needed
> 
> > From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > <snip>
> > > you'd be hard pressed to run V5R2 on hardware from a decade ago.
> >
> > You absolutely CANNOT run Windows XP on a 10 year old PC.  So what's
> your
> > point?
> > <endsnip>
> >
> > And can you run V5R2 on an AS/400 from 10 years ago?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Joe
> 
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