RE: V5R2 Quality - Notes from the field needed

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It used to be a very common and stupid practice Bob - no offense. And I
agree there were all KINDS of folks saying "do this a free up disk". Of
course then your developers couldn't run debug - and you had a HUGE problem
at CISC to RISC time. I managed to convince my boss NOT to do this a year
before the CISC to RISC deal when a consultant from one of the "big boys"
was selling this as the "no problem at all" doing it (leaving out totally
the debug deal - he had no idea that was a problem until I told him...

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Crothers Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 2:31 PM
 
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