@Rob
" I've still got Ventura running on 2 different boxes"
I have a lot of documentation in Ventura and now no machine capable of
running the software.
Can I ask what OS you have on the 2 boxes and is this just for historical
preservation or do you still use it ?
I definitely concur with your sentiments for Corel!!!
Cheers
Don
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2026 10:36 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Note to IBM: Bulk email about End Of Support
I tend to disfavor software vendors who boast of supporting obsolete OS
versions while being unwilling to test/support DIRECTLY new versions of
the OS upon GA date (if not sooner).
On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 5:37 PM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3/25/26 12:41 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> > Don't just give me some
> > generic IBM link listing all IBM stuff approaching EOS.
>
> Hmm. End or support. I have a vague recollection of the last time one
> of our boxes reached EOS. It's still in service. Along with two older
ones.
>
> I have a much clearer recollection of when a digital typesetting
> system I use on a regular basis very abruptly went EOS, even though
> that was much longer ago. Decades ago, Corel (infamous for its reverse
> Midas
> touch: everything they tuch turns to bloatware) bought the enire
> Ventura Software operation off of Xerox, and promptly ended support of
> the
> *real* Ventura Publisher, the one that runs on DOS boxes, in a runtime
> version of DR GEM, and oh, yes, they also discontinued all support of
> the Macintosh port. I got a letter from them. A physical letter --
> this was before email was at all common -- "offering" me an "upgrade"
> to their new WinDoze version. I fired back a letter, quoting an old
> tobacco
> tagline: I told them "I'd rather fight than switch." I never heard
> back from them, and while outfitting a true DOS machine is not exactly
> easy these days, I've still got Ventura running on 2 different boxes.
> Oh, and if you have a hardcopy Questview manual that's more recent
> than 1994, guess who did the typesetting (in addition to a substantial
> rewrite, and all the screen shots), and on what software?
>
> --
> JHHL
> "Luddites of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your
> upgrade-treadmills!"
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