[rescue] Another fine business decision for us axp-lovers

[Dave McGuire]

  I think the number of packages that would operate correctly is
smaller than you think.

  Many packages were hard-coded for certain types of video cards (when
was the last time you saw a Hercules-compatible mono card?) and had
timing loops that depended on certain processors operating at a
certain speed.  Many packages also talked directly to hardware because
the "OS" (MS/PC-DOS, the glorified program loader) provided virtually
NO usable services to application programs.

  Most early PC programmers were one step out of their VIC-20s when they
got a job programming PCs with Turbo-C, and it shows.

          -Dave McGuire

On June 25, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Oddly enough, I think that most PC software from when PCs were new can
> still be run, even on modern systems like linux. Not a 30-40 year
> tradition like IBM, but still decent.  I don't think there is any chance
> of running 20 year old Sun software on a modern sun.
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, James Fogg wrote:
> 
> > Whenever a company says "The bottom line is: we are creating great customer
> > value", I run and hide (this is a quote from their website). Real customer
> > value is when you can write software once and just update the hardware (like
> > the IBM mainframe aproach).
> > 
> > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, THOU SPAKE:
> > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:06:03AM -0400, Larry Snyder wrote:
> > > > http://www.compaq.com/hps/ipf-enterprise/index.html
> > > 
> > > "Read what our customers are saying"
> > > 
> > > Heh.  I *know* what the customers are saying.
> > > "Oh FUCK!  Shouldnt have just bought that new Alpha system..."
> > > 
> > > 8-)
> > > 
> > > Bill
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Bill Bradford
> > > mrbill at mrbill.net
> > > Austin, TX
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